Background

My work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries regionally and nationally, including the Annual Larson Gallery Photo National Exhibition for four years; Texas Photographic Society National Competition Traveling exhibition; Photography Center Northwest, Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Seattle; Photomontage Gallery, La Conner and Seattle Art Museum Photography Council Exhibits. Publications such as Polaroid “P” Magazine have featured my work. I received a B. A. in Art Education from the University of Washington, and my photography education has included independent study with the Photography Center Northwest.

Florae Series

In flowers and plants I see life – the beauty of birth, living and death – the essence of creation and renewal.  I compose these images not to document, but to experience a unique connection with nature using the camera as a tool.There is a rich history of photographing flowers and plants.  One of my first recollections of photography as art is the botanical imagery of Imogen Cunningham.  Seeing an exhibit of her photographs years ago began my passion for black and white photography.The Florae series takes the black and white print a step further.  It is produced using a large format 4”x 5” camera with Polaroid black and white peel-apart film, which produces a negative.   A technique of “solarization” is applied, giving the painterly effect of a thin black line around the petals, leaves and stems.  The negative is scanned and the print is produced using the Piezography digital carbon pigment method on 100% rag fine art paper.

• Archival carbon pigment ink digital printing process on 100% rag fine art paper.
  Image sizes 14 ½” x 11 ½”.

• Limited Edition silver gelatin fine art photograph, hand printed using traditional
  wet darkroom technique.  Limited to 25, signed, 15” x 12”

Hawaii Series

In a landscape such as Hawaii where there is an abundance of color – the sky, sea and vegetation is almost overwhelming at times. Making elegant black and white images of pure light and tonality is the challenge.  It is an interpretive process – the art or seeing in light and shadow.

The diverse beauty of the landscape and culture of Hawaii is what has inspired my interest to photograph there.  Intimacy, peace and an appreciation of the gifts of our environment are what I want to express as I compose the spaces of the photograph.  I return often to experience this peace and intimacy.

These film-based images are scanned and archivally printed in the Piezography method – a carbon pigment ink digital process on 100% rag fine art paper.  They are printed in a variety of sizes – some to image size 30” x 30” and 30” x 37”.