Mixed Media Collage
The collage series began as a game that led me to my current interest in landscape. Working with monotypes of gestural marks on colored and textured Asian papers, I cut them up into six-inch squares to create a “palette” of color, mass and line. Arranging these squares into long horizontal bands began to evoke psychologically charged landscapes of storms, brush fires and tidal waves. In the larger monotypes, I reversed the process, beginning with a dramatic gestural painting and then printing on the Asian papers that were 10-inch squares and 12-inch horizontal bands of varied length.
All of these works capture an arrested moment through the painterly tension which is created between the deep space of a intensely colored field, the floating marks of expressive materials embedded in the sheet (bamboo leaves, horsehair, gold leaf slivers) and the hard edge of the cut paper.
