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Artist Statement

Sometimes you just need a change—something to reignite the creative spark. This exhibit is about that need and where it led me. During a 12 week online class I tried some mixed media/collage. It was not something I thought would be my “thing”, but I absolutely loved it! As they say, “the rest is history”. All 80+ artworks in this exhibit feature, to one degree or another, my newfound love of collage and gel plate monoprinting. The prints came about because I wanted to use my own papers in my collage work, although some of the prints are stand alone works. Themes in my previous work remain throughout this exhibit: trees, flowers/botanicals, water, landscape, abstraction, and negative space painting. I’m interested in the depiction of layered history or memory and the idea of wholeness from fragments. Collage is a perfect example of using fragments and disparate bits to create a newly imagined and distinctive work.