"One chooses an object which, when gradually deciphered, reveals a state of mind." - Stéphane Mallarmé

The objects which are so compelling to me have been the seawall, the human figure, and small pieces of our environment. Each is a container, a repository of a truth that endures.

Seawalls are built by man and changed by the ocean, sometimes reflecting a delicate balance, other times a powerful imbalance, between nature and man, between us all, between what is revealed and what is concealed, between sorrow and joy, between isolation and connection.

The figures reflect a search for connection with the other; a cry for contact, communication, compassion, and community; a struggle for truth, tolerance, tenderness, and transcendence; a faith in our shared humanity.

For me, the very process of layering color, shapes, and lines in the search to bring forth an image comes to embody our entanglements and the inherent messiness and imperfection of connection.

Through observation and contemplation of the image that emerges through the layers from the flat surface of the paper, I hope subtle and perhaps uncertain currents and undercurrents of recognition and possibility begin to stir in the viewer who pauses to gradually decipher the image through their own perceptions and memories.

I hope a glimpse of our connectedness is revealed and recognized.

Awards

2008 First Prize, Printmaking, Winter Juried Show, Art Complex Museum,
   Duxbury, MA
2007 Third Prize, Printmaking, 52nd Annual Festival of Arts Juried Show,
   South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
2007 Third Place, Pintmaking, Winter Juried Show, Art Complex Museum,
    Duxbury, MA
2006 First Prize, Printmaking, Sea & Sky Annual Juried Show, Hull Lifesaving
   Museum, Hull, MA
2006 Second Prize, Mixed Media, Spring Open Juried Show, Cape 
    Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
2006 First Prize, Mixed Media, Winter Juried Show, Cape Cod Art Association
    Barnstable, MA
2006 First Prize, Pintmaking, Winter Juried Show, Art Complex Museum,
    Duxbury, MA
2005 First Prize, Printmaking, Sea & Sky Annual Juried Show, Hull Lifesaving
   Museum, Hull, MA
2005 First Prize, Printmaking, Ture Bengtz Printmaking Prize, 50th Anniversary
   Festival of the Arts, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
2005 Second Place, Cape Cod Art Association
2005 Third Prize, Printmaking, South Shore Art Center, Annual Festival
   of the Arts, Cohasset, MA

Group Shows
2008 Different Voices at the Courthouse Center of the Arts, West    Kingston, RI
2008 34th Annual Winter Juried Show, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
2007 Fragments of Place, solo show, Paul Pratt Library, Cohasset, MA
2007 From Ink to Image: A Show of Unique Prints, Mill Brook Gallery,    Concord, NH
2007 52nd Annual Festival of Arts Juried Show, South Shore Art Center,
    Cohasset, MA
2007 Grossman Gallery Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2007 Perkins Gallery, Passages and Process: The Unique Print
2007 Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Annual Winter Juried Show
2006 Printmakers of Cape Cod Fine Print Exhibition, Cape Cod Museum of Art,
   Dennis, MA
2006 Coming of Age, MGNE traveling portfolio, curated by
   Joann Moser, Smithsonian American Art Museum
2006 8th Annual National Juried Small Works Exhibition,
    Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2006 Cape Cod Art Association, Winter Open Juried Show
2006 Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Annual Winter Juried Show
2005 Hull Lifesaving Museum, Sea & Sky Annual Juried Show
2005 South Shore Art Center, Annual Juried Festival of the Arts
2005 Attleboro Art Museum, Annual National Small Works Exhibition
2005 Duxbury Art Museum, Annual Winter Juried Show
2004-2005 North River Arts, Annual Juried Festival of the Arts
2004 Fuller Museum of Art, Annual Juried Members Show
2004 North River Arts Society, Annual Juried Festival of the Arts
2003-2004 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Juried Members Show
2004 Hull Lifesaving Museum, Annual Juried Sea and Sky Show
2004 Cape Cod Art Association, Juried Gallery Artist
2004 The Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, Spring Juried Show

What is a monoprint?

Monoprints, singular and unique prints, are created by layering color, texture, shape, and line with ink on a smooth surface (usually, but not always, a piece of Plexiglas) and pressing a piece of paper over it to transfer the inked image onto the paper. The Plexiglas can be re-inked and the same piece of paper pressed over the inked plate again, building and shaping the image. It is a wonderful, somewhat unpredictable process. It requires a willingness to be attentive, curious, surprised, and responsive. Through close observation, connections and conversations begin to unfold that lead to the next decision, the next layer, and a series of evolving images and ideas. A new layer of color or shape will be transformed by what lies beneath it, by what lies beside it. One layer will reveal, another layer will conceal, as the monoprint gradually gathers shape and suggests a state of mind.