Print Media is everything…
from magazines, newspapers, stickers, books zines, playbills, tickets, labels on packaging, caution tape, It includes walking through a puddle. Some of it lasts forever, some only until the sun dries it up . All are a record of our being and took some form of process and ritual to make it.
Printmaking is the process of making multiples of an image. Traditional printmakers make an edition as accurate as possible of 10-100 of the same exact image. I do this- sometimes. I enjoy the rhythm and ritual of making something the same. As a Painter I really enjoy the “One off” or Monoprint . I use printmaking to work out ideas about colour, composition and layers. Often i will only make a few of any one print exactly the same. Generally I will make 100 but all will have different variables, different paper, colours, order of layers, positioning, registration.
In Production is satisfying and goes back to my craft parents making spoons, teapots.
Process is Awesome and may be just an investigation but also may turn into something else. Exploring the possibility of Eureka!!!! is always just around the corner.
Notes about the Prints and Labels: If the print in these collections has no fraction than you are looking at the only one. A fraction ie 1/10 means there are ten of them. Reduction print means that as I printed I carved away some of the surface of the softoleum or linoleum and the surface was reduced until only a thin line or original surface remained. I can not make more of these. M/P or monoprint means that it was made in such a way only one was created either on plasticine, plexiglass or jelly print. Some prints are related to series of works in my painting portfolio. There will be links to take you from one to the other at the bottom of the page.
affordable portable useful art – 2019-Now
Silkscreened cards, cotton bags, T shirts, pencil cases, portfolios and puzzles.
belonging propaganda – 2024-NOW
A ongoing series of silkscreened prints on painted wooden panels installed around the city of Toronto on wooden poles.
be mindful – 2011
Be Mindful is a series of reduction prints based off of a 15th century mosaic of Mother Mary, using a pop art style colour scheme.
eye/deas – 1997
This work explores the beauty & depth of the human eye through close observation of only a part of the iris. Based on paintings of the same name using hard and soft linoleum as a reduction print or multilayered relief some have chin colle additions.
pay attention – 2017
A group of prints in a variety of print methods, some in combination, silkscreen, intaglio, & relief stamp.
peacock & feather series – 2012
The series was a great exploration in lino reduction prints with tertiary colour exploration and metallic inks interspersed in the layers.
Small prints – 2013-Now
Since 2013 I have entered into miniature print shows in Canada and Bulgaria, these are the outcome. Most images are under 4” square.
swamps – 2011
A soft lino reduction print series based on painting series.
tree series – 2011
This series is an exploration of shapes within tree branches based on Piet Mondrian’s apple tree. What if the branches reflected a single shape, a square, a four, a triangle and oval?
venus of willendorf – 2023
These works are oversized print in silkscreen of the Venus of Willendorf.
(wo)man in the moon – 1999
Prints based on the painting series of the same name, and all created on hard linoleum as reduction prints.