Printmaking

Printmaking was one of my concentrated fields of study while earning a Masters at Northern Illinois University(NIU). David Driesbach, a student of Mauricio Lasansky, was my main mentor with Intaglio and Relief printmaking. While at NIU, there were seminars with International printmakers Gabor Peterdi (Intaglio), Carol Summers (Relief), and Garo Antreasian (Lithography).

After college I worked mostly with painting in oils and acrylics and dealing with collage. Recently, the taste of "ink" has re-surfaced, bringing the desire to create with it to the forefront.

My approach to any art process is maintaining visual activity with movement, action, with the abstract co-existing with the real. Printmaking offers a challenging interaction with metal, wood, and linoleum, and an opportunity to work with new tools. Their resistant properties and required procedures challenge each artist's discipline skills. Final results reward the artist with the richness of ink on quality papers and the newness of reversed images.