As an artist, graphic designer and writer, I am a constant editor: subtracting, simplifying and simply
deleting. My paintings are based on the idea that this is how we see our modern day landscape – mostly a simplified blur framed by our car window. Occasionally we pass an old house or clapboard church and we wonder who lives there or about the people associated with it. We don’t remember much detail, yet it makes an impression and capitivates us for a moment. These are images I have lived with, questioned and created on canvas.
Transforming these images through screenprinting has become fascinating to me. I loved the idea of spot color, deconstructing them into something flat and simplistic. I was able to do this with two of my paintings, and overall I don’t necessarily view them as successful but merely experimental. I want to keep playing to see if I can find whatever it is that I vaguely believe I can label as “success.”
Printing in four color process to produced interesting images as well. Seeing these images transformed into something different by CMYK screen printing was exciting. New life given through a new format. My peers felt that it made my paintings look as though they were photographs. I intend to do much more of this. I think it is also a great way of making art more accessible to buyers.
deleting. My paintings are based on the idea that this is how we see our modern day landscape – mostly a simplified blur framed by our car window. Occasionally we pass an old house or clapboard church and we wonder who lives there or about the people associated with it. We don’t remember much detail, yet it makes an impression and capitivates us for a moment. These are images I have lived with, questioned and created on canvas.
Transforming these images through screenprinting has become fascinating to me. I loved the idea of spot color, deconstructing them into something flat and simplistic. I was able to do this with two of my paintings, and overall I don’t necessarily view them as successful but merely experimental. I want to keep playing to see if I can find whatever it is that I vaguely believe I can label as “success.”
Printing in four color process to produced interesting images as well. Seeing these images transformed into something different by CMYK screen printing was exciting. New life given through a new format. My peers felt that it made my paintings look as though they were photographs. I intend to do much more of this. I think it is also a great way of making art more accessible to buyers.
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