handprinted watercolor monotype on Rives Lightweight

In my work I use suggestion and impression to describe time and place. I am interested in how line and marks, color and gesture, along with variations in the visual perception of the paper can create a unified whole from which individual elements emerge held together by a sense of light.

Moi Dans L'Atelier is a handprinted water color monotype. The plate was painted from direct observation in a marvelous high ceilinged space. The unexpected mixings and qualities of the paint when printed make visible something intrinsic but intangible that captures something real and essential about the subject.

This thought from Van Gogh captures what I am reaching for:
“It comes down to seizing what does not pass away in what passes away.”