My creative process begins with photographic observations and documentation. Using traditional, digital, and non-traditional, photographic techniques, I add paint and collage to create photographically based mixed media artworks.
For me nature is a fascinating subject that offers endless variety. I am attracted to the complex organic forms, textures, and colors within a single plant, challenging myself to represent it in as many different and unique ways as I can. In the Modernist tradition I turn the flower, leaf, seedpod, over and over, looking for and amplifying pattern, shape, color, and line. My goal is to push the photograph beyond traditional boundaries and make it truly a distinctive mixed-media image.
