I continue to be drawn to compositions with a sense of place and time, and enjoy abstracting them towards timelessness and less specificity. To see the whole body of work, choose 2012 Portfolio from the View menu. Let me know which ones you’d like to see in a physical, rather than a digital, form!

I get very specific questions about my art: where is it? How is it made? Even: what is it? But I want to draw you in first, before the specifics are revealed, to a general place and time, that could be somewhere you’ve been, but I haven’t. What if the tulips I rendered from Skagit County in Washington on a very rainy spring day remind you of your family’s garden when you were a child? They do for me. Or they might transport me to Holland, a place I’ve never been yet.

Maybe just seeing the hints and reflections are more of a reality than the actual thing. I am hoping that my layers and layers of photographs and textures are actually exposing more truths, rather than obscuring it.

As with my previous digital work, I use my own photographs to build up colorful textures, then use those colors as my palette. I kept the palette mostly within an orange-purple-green spectrum this year. My photographic muses in this selection of work include a magical sunny weekend in Edinburgh, a trip to the Bay Area in the late fall, the San Juan Islands in the spring, as well as the usual outings closer to home.

In addition to printing on metal, I am enjoying a return to handmade processes with an encaustic mount of my own prints onto wood panels. I have printed a few for display at the artEAST gallery in Issaquah, and can entertain requests for custom prints as well. Let me know if there is a combination of image & output that you’d like to see.