On a run this summer to Sandy Neck beach I noticed a large brown clump of something…going down the beach to investigate, strewn all along the wrack line, I saw large seaweed which turned out to be sugar kelp. I was able to roll up a few of them and ran back to my studio. What ensued was a whole summer devoted to creating art with the kelp, some of them 60 inches long and more.

These are some of the prints I created from the kelp and other seaweed I harvested. All the images are sun prints using Cyanotype and Van Dyke brown chemistry. They are currently on display at Cape Cod Community College in our new science and technology center.

at Cape Cod Community College NEBA is the newly formed Book Arts Group centered in Boston

one or more of my recent books will be on display starting in February.

An exciting opportunity to exhibit with such terrific artists and to see

the behind the scenes genesis of the work.

Inspired by a powerful poem by Judith Partelow about the bombing of the Mariupol

Hotel in Ukraine I created this response….. Silence I and Silence II

I created the skeletal remains of beautiful architecture as an Angel looks on.

I was excited to participate with my daughter Alyssa in Big Ink at the Duxbury

Art Museum…. a fun filled day of giant prints professionally printed by Lyle Castonguay

the event was a blast with great musical accompaniment.

It was a fun challenge and great experience to work collaboratively with Barbara Ford Doyle, Mary Doering and Alan Trugman on this 3-D book. I loved how it changed, evolved and grew from its first inception. It went on to be accepted into the exhibition Connectivity at the Attleboro Museum of Art and then again to be shown again in an international show In Tandem at the Cape Museum. nexUS is more than the sum of its parts!

Seeing Through the Trees

Handmade accordion book with ink paintings and

marbled paper. 2016

It is coming closer to the installation of the collaborative

exhibition.  SEVEN at the Cape Cod Museum of Art……

watch for details…….

Part of a recent series of prints exploring relationships between natural forms. The prints balance various shapes and forms suggesting the elements.  The inspiration goes back to a trip to Pompeii many years ago. Having once been a potter, I have been always enthralled by the beautiful shapes of the vessels I saw in Pompeii, evidence of lost generations and time passing.

evidence

This year’s handmade book donation to the Morgan Paper Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.Every year I make a handmade book comprised of their paper and my artwork… so much fun! The auction is coming up in October and raises money for paper research and paper education.  Glad to be a part of it.

Morning Time.