Illustrated Journals

  Artist Statement  

I am an observer. My bookshelves are filled with handmade illustrated journals.

Drawings of trees, landscapes, botanical subjects, horses, cats, and figures are among my visual obsessions. I carry these journals with me everywhere, recording impressions and writing about my travels and everyday life. They are a rich source material of images that reoccur in my mixed media prints drawings, and paintings.

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In the illustrated journal series, I combine hand colored heliogravure (etchings in the sun) and blind embossing (etched metal plates cut to shape with a jeweler’s saw). Each is composed like a two-page book layout with my Italic calligraphy from selected passages in my journals.