These are no ordinary prints! These are "plaster prints" that result in encaustic paintings. I use large scale collagraph plates and ink to make an impression in wet plaster on boards. When they cure and dry, I manipulate the relief surface with encaustic paint. The plaster enhances the luminosity and texture of the encaustic with structure and depth on my journey of self-exploration and expression.

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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), English philosopher and mathematician. Dialogues, June 10, 1943.

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Where does movement come from? The bones and sinew that make up human structure are the building blocks of imagery in this viscerally beautiful series.

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"...What if inside the body another shape is waiting to come out, White as a quilt, loose as a fever, and sways in the easy tides there? What other anagoge in this life but the self? What other ladder to Paradise, but the smooth handholds of the ribcage?" -Charles Wright, California Dreaming

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The human figure informs the roots of my work. Everything I do is inspired by human movement, dance, and the physicality of the figure itself. From direct gesture drawings from nudes, these figures range from representation to suggestion and back again.

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Large format prints from collagraph plates built and reformatted over 4 years for Atelier 6000 Printmaking Studio in Bend, OR.

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Encaustic and traditional collagraph plates printed at Atelier 6000, Bend, OR

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