SOURCES, RESOURCES, & INSPIRATION
FROM THE ARTIST
I translate moments in time to visual essays - responses to the observed world which at any moment is stunning, visceral, tragic, renewable, breathtaking.
My love of flying is from early childhood. I sketch-note from window seats. Floating shapes, aerial perspective, layered light, macro viewpoints, permeate my work. Learning to pilot small planes taught me much about space with low altitude flying as Immersion in light.
Professional grants, sabbaticals, residencies brought me to Latin America, chiefly Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, plus Western Europe. Fortunate to travel widely for months at time, I owe much to Mexico, a profound influence in re-configuring my practice. I continue to create occasional trips or small groups or cultural organizations.
Sabbaticals provided time to develop lo-tech, non-toxic printmaking in challenging tropical and sub-tropical environments. Here in Sarasota, Selby Gardens, Spanish Point, Myakka River State Park, are key inspiration.
From 2019 - 2020, I undertook an arduous yet rewarding task relocating from Boston to subtropical Sarasota, exactly as the pandemic shut down the world. Spring 2022 I opened my downtown studio.
SPACES
Studio visits welcome. Please contact me to be sure I am working on site.
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