"I am a painter and a printmaker with a background in education in architecture and the history of technology. In my printmaking endeavors I utilize the advanced technology of the laser copy machine in combination with a heat transfer process. It is exciting to me to use new technologies that are achivally secure. Heat transfer printmaking permits an enormous amount of creativity in terms of coloration and assemblage, along with the advantage of immediacy."
"The work that I've produced for the past decade has consisted mostly of OEscapes, done primarily on rag (that is, gessoed) and on canvas. They have consisted of studies of cities and industry. While the subject matter is recognizable, my concern is with the surface of the paintings and the abstract qualities that can come from organizing the colors and texture on the canvas. These cityscapes and industrials should work aesthetically from an abstract sense as well as the subject matter that they deal with. Large works are often conceived of in sections for while the painting is valid, the painting becomes the plate for the print and should work on several levels that can be divided."
PRINTMAKING
"My traditional printmaking background has helped me to develop a
OEprinter's eye, approach so that I attempt to use a printer's expertise
in progressing up a technological ladder. Skills learned in basic
printmaking technologies distill and reinforce the types of methods
used; they suggest possibilities that are transferable to new techniques
available. In essence what I attempt to do is adapt a OEfine art
printer's eye, to the laser, the ozalid, and the heat transfer printing
processes to essentially create a new method of printmaking."
"In traditional printmaking, e.g., intaglio, lithography, woodcut, or
serigraphy, one develops an eye for line, color, and form connected to
the tools used in each particular printing technique. The heat transfer
process permits the exchange of thinking so that the black OEstabilo,
line is comparable to the OEincised, line of the burin on the copper
plate of the intaglio process. If one is using areas of color, such as
exist in the aquatint of the etching technique, these areas are thought
of in terms of gradations of color and the imagery and textures placed
upon the canvas are thought of as areas for use in printing and what the
transition will be when printing these areas. It is a difficult
transference but an integral part of my evaluation of how to approach
the elements of a particular print on the laser copier."
