ARTIST STATEMENT

Cuba: the cars, the colors and the architecture

In Cuba I was drawn to the brilliantly painted cars:

hot pink, turquoise, chartreuse, blue, yellow, red and orange.

Circa 1959 Chevrolet’s: curvy, voluptuous and sexy

The Architecture: arches everywhere you look and

corrugated sheets of metal covering works in progress.

Crumbling buildings, textures abound.

These are the memories that inspired me.

These are the elements that appear repeatedly

in every composition I have created in this series

BIO

For the past 35 years I have been exploring a number of different printmaking processes: collagraphs, dry point, monotypes and intaglio. Keeping my health and the environment in mind, I only use non-toxic materials. I have always collected and been fascinated with boxes and how they are made from one piece of cardboard. Currently I am opening boxes and using the irregular shape as my intaglio printing plate.

I have been teaching art at The Shipley School for the past twenty-nine years. I include this information because I believe teaching and being a productive artist go hand in hand, complementing each other. Some of my awards include the Esther Rose Fisher Printmaking Award, the Larmon Photography Award and the Sarah A. Peters Fine Arts Traveling Fellowship Award. My work has been exhibited in numerous group shows and solo exhibitions and is in a number of private collections.