Late Afternoon Light, October

My primary artist concerns are always with formal relationships such as forms in space, overlapping planes, value contrasts, color, composition, etc. But there is also subject matter, nature, and hopefully poetry. Painting is framed and varnished. …

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Anna’s Flowers

Anna Atkins is considered the mother of cyanotype. I’ve moved the medium to fabric and dried flowers instead of paper and seaweed. Fabric presents a separate set of challenges, from wrinkles creating variations in tone to blur created by the object being pressed into the fabric. …

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Lily pads

Cyanotype draws me in again and again with the range of blues possible. Here I took a photo at my local lake and then created the cyanotype with it. I’m very fortunate to be able to mix my own chemistry and have access to a multitude of photo subjects. …

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Ice

Thaw has always been an ugly word in my house. The constant shifts in temperature, the ice then slush, it’s a hard time in the Northwoods! This year I challenged myself to find beauty in it. …

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Orange Clouds

I was down on the dock watching the sunset, it was lovely…I turned to head back up to the cabin and the thunderheads illuminated by the setting sun were outstanding. I ran up to grab my camera. …

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Clouds

I have always been fascinated with clouds, ever changing and transformimg. The image I created Clouds from, was multiple cloud formations. I thought the composition was more interesting zooming in and cropping the image to have light and dark on opposite corners of the painting. …

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Hiking at VanVliet

The Van Vliet Hemlock Forest is a gem in Vilas County. Last fall I hiked there and captured a serene lake with beautiful reflections. …

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Summer Field

This colorful glass landscape features a field of daisies blowing in the summer breeze. Layers of colored glass and glass powders were carefully arranged, then kiln fired multiple times. After shaping with a tile saw, …

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Cascade

Thin strips of blue, aqua, and iridescent glass are dotted by glass bubbles in this cascading glass sculpture. The strips of glass are kiln-fired, kiln-shaped and mounted on a custom steel and slate stand. …

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