"Leap" a Self Portrait - Polymer photogravure print - Edition 2021

"Leap" a Self Portrait - Polymer photogravure print - Edition 2021I have been spending much of my time this year working on what is next and taking chances with my work as a photographer and printmaker. Taking a "leap" into printmaking as my new medium of choice, exploring myself, and looking towards the new photographs I want to make. It has not been easy for me in some ways, at the same time I am grateful for the support I have during this journey. I admire the self portrait work made by my closest friends and

I had picked these flowers while walking to the studio one day

In march of 2020 at the beginning of what we would come to learn as a year of isolation and worry

I discovered this breezeway in the Castle at Česky Krumlov and I felt the dark mystery that is Prague and Lower Bohemia

This picture is part of my Objects of Beauty series that has been ongoing for a number of years

Susan and I learned photogravure printmaking together

ornate old Cathedrals in France they start to seem commonplace

with a dash of Charbonnel sanguine ink on Hahnemühle creme German Etching paper

Signed numbered and dated by the artist on the lower front

I was drawn to the beauty in the chaos and disorder of what was in front of my big camera

When I was in college studying photography my heroes were commercial photographers

4"x 4" inches on an 11 x 15

The Dordogne River - Domme