ARTISTIC JOURNEY

Printmaking

My first printmaking classes were at University of California, Berkeley with George Miyasaki. I fell in love with the process and have spent my career exploring new ways to create prints. I explored the Japanese technique of Gyotaku or Nature Printing, Monoprints, Etchings. Many of my self-portraits use solar plate transfers or other chemical processes.

Painting

I think I first fell in love with painting in elementary school. I spent a summer at the Banff School of Fine Arts studying watercolor landscape painting. My first paintings on canvas were oils then acrylics. Today I use watercolors and acrylics to explore figurative images, landscapes and social issues.

Drawing

Like most artists, I draw all the time. Until recently, I did not think of a drawing as a completed artwork. I’ve been a part of a life drawing group that meets weekly since January 2019. Instead of just sketches that are ideas for other works, the drawings have started to become the completed idea or narrative.