Artist Statement:

Growing up and spending most of my life in the plains states provided an experience of living with a sky that is cinematic. My work comes from sky images either remembered, invented, or found through photography. I am charged emotionally and visually when I focus on the sky. Finding delicate fleeting patterns, coupled with subtle atmospheric shades of value, I seek a composition of shapes and forms, of light and shadow, of weaving in and out between the subject and its environment that speaks to an indecipherable urge. As a visual artist with a background in traditional printmaking, I have utilized many techniques in my work from one series to the next. I have explored both traditional methods and new, digital-based methods and I feel I have come full circle. My recent work has become a centering point for me - a stepping back and reconnecting with printmaking as I first learned it and remembering why I fell in love with it.