NATURE INSPIRED  *  WATERCOLORS    OILS  *  ACRYLICS  *  PASTELS 

A stay in the Paris studio of sculptor and print maker, Joseph Kurhajec, afforded the opportunity to divert from my detail approach to art making and experiment and explore pure color and visual texture through the process of the monoprint. The thick oil printing ink created observable visual and physical texture richness. Seeing the fields of grasses and flowers while traveling in the countryside of France as well as visits to Monet's garden in Giverny and the beaches of Normandy and Deauville were inspiration when applying the ink to the metal plate.

               “I found I could say things with color and  shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.” Georgia O'Keeffe