Full Scale City Print

I enjoy looking at objects differently, searching for small areas of intrigue, finding beauty in small incongruities and unexpected surfaces. These surfaces include ceramic glazes, stone, wood, seashells, and rusty pipes. I find form and rhythm in the abstraction of objects found in my environment. This is a close up photograph of a ceramic glaze, enlarged. I then drew and painted a city onto the colors and textures. In my Mixed Media work, I use a giclée process to print the digital photographs on a matte fiber paper. I then draw and paint on the surface, creating landscapes on top of the photographs. A small area is transformed into a new world. Sometimes these worlds are beautiful, sometimes they are ruins, sometimes they are vacant, sometimes they are full of people and animals. The finished Mixed Media artworks can be viewed from a distance, as abstract works, and up close, as detailed universes