Artist Statement

My work combines a long-term professional interest in dreams and the unconscious with a more recent study of Japanese flower arranging, known as Ikebana.

As a psychologist, I spent many years exploring the interrelationship of conscious and unconscious processes. I found multiple layers of meaning implicit in much of what we experience and much of what we do. Events in the present are viewed through a lens of old and recent, remembered and forgotten events from the past. I try to express this complexity in my art work.

In creating these solarplate monoprints, I have focused on the esthetic principles of Ikebana, which involve line, mass, color and space as compositional elements. All the images are from three plates, two of which were made from my own photographs, the third from an ink drawing. Some are printed in oil-based inks and others in soy-based inks.

I come to printmaking from a dozen years of painting in acrylic, oil and, occasionally, watercolor. My work is mainly abstract, although often with figurative elements, particularly in response to topics in the news.