ARTIST STATEMENT
There are always questions about monotypes- what is the technique, why use these materials, why go through this multi-step, time-constrained, risky process – the image reverses left to right , there is a chance the ink will not transfer as you planned, the dark colors may not be dense enough, the ink may slide, distorting a carefully painted shape. Why give up the control? Why not paint an image directly on paper?
I use this printmaking technique because everything about it is dynamic, breathing life into the image. The painting tools are unlimited: rollers, fingers, rags, brushes, Q-tips etc., each with a unique gestural quality. They can add paint, or lift it, create subtle light or brilliant whites. The process is fluid, moving back and forth between application and removal of color, adding to the liveliness of the image. The painting must be done quickly, as the inks will start to dry after few hours. When the image is complete it will be transferred to paper with an etching press.
A painted plate can be printed on paper, then the plate saved until the next day making the ghost image available to incorporate into the next print.
My choice of subject matter is related to what I like about this printmaking process. The dynamic quality of things has great appeal to me, catching the moments before, during and after light, color and shape change – that’s what I’m looking for. There is a very short time lapse series in a single image. A short walk from my studio is a large brook, with a broad marsh. That is where the blackbird series starts. I’m watching the shape, balance and movement of the birds, as well as their interest in each other. I’m listening for their territorial calls. They nest in the Cattails and grasses and are on guard to protect their claim. I’m interested in actions of honeybees for the same reasons – what they do and why, how they work together how they differ from other creatures. There is a reference to time passing in these pieces, a few seconds or maybe days. What was there becomes a shadow as the image incorporates the now, in crisp, sharp strongly colored additions.
PCL, 2019
RESUME
SOLO AND SMALL GROUP EXHIBITS
2019 Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA – A WOMAN’S WORK…
2014 WENDELL LIBRARY, Wendell, MA – A Flock of Days
2013 GROTON LIBRARY, Groton, MA – A Flock Of Days
2012 LAWRENCE ACADEMY, Groton, MA – LANDSCAPES, three visions
2009 GROTON LIBRARY, Groton, MA – UP NORTH, DOWN EAST
2001 SHARON ARTS, Peterborough, NH
1994 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA – Monotypes: New Works
1991 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA – Monotypes: The One and Only
1988 TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Gallery Eleven, Medford, MA
1987 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
2019 Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR – Fierce and Frail II
2018 HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING, Minneapolis, MN – Stand Out Prints
2018 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA – Summer Celebration
2017 MassArt 4thBiennial Alumni Exhibit – HABITAT/ion
2017 BLINK GALLERY, Lexington, MA – Printmakers Exhibit, BZZZ Exhibit
2016 MGNE, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA – 4thNational Juried Exhibit
2016 THE RIVER ARTS CENTER, Prairie du Sac, WI – Wings and Water, National Juried Exhibit
2015 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA – New Works On Paper
2014 MGNE, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA– Member’s Juried Exhibit
2013 MGNE- National Juried Exhibit, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
2012 GROTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, Groton, MA – A Baker’s Dozen
2012 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA- yearly group exhibits
2004 SHARON ARTS, Peterborough, NH – Hot off the Press
2003 BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY, Somerville, MA – Collaboration
2003 SHARON ARTS, Peterborough, NH – Nothing Common
2002 POWERS GALLERY, Acton. MA – New Works on Paper
2002 GREAT RIVERS ART INSTITUTE, Walpole, NH – TheAmerican River (traveling exhibit)
2001 SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER, Cohassett, MA – Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
2001 FLETCHER – PRIEST GALLERY, Worcester, MA
2000 PARKSIDE NATIONAL SMALL PRINT EXHIBITION, Kenosha, WI
1999 CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION, Concord MA – Artists for the 21stCentury
1999 CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION, Concord, MA – Black and White
1999 PARKSIDE NATIONAL SMALL PRINT EXHIBITION, Kenosha, WI
1998 WHISTLER HOUSE MUSEUM, Lowell, MA – 10 Women
1998 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA – New Works
1988 MCGOWAN GALLERY, Lowell, MA – Three Women: Paintings, Pastels and Etchings
1996 POWERS GALLERY, Acton, MA – New Works
1994 SPRINGFIELD ARTS LEAGUE NATIONAL, Springfield, MA
1990 SPRINGFIELD ARTS LEAGUE NATIONAL, Springfield, MA
1990 BOSTON PRINTMAKERS NATIONAL, Boston, MA
1989 SPRINGFIELD ARTS LEAGUE NATIONAL, Springfield, MA
1987 SHARON ARTS CENTER, Sharon, NH – Best of Show: A Decade of Winners
1987 CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION, Concord, MA – Four
AWARDS
2016 MGNE, Attleboro Art Museum, Juror’s Award, Andrew Stevens
2016 The River Arts Center, Juror’s Award, Marla Brenner
2014 MGNE, Fitchburg Art Museum, Juror’s Award, Debra Olin
2001 South Shore Art Center, Juror’s Award, Jeffery Keough
1999 Concord Art Association, Juror’s Award, Meredith Moses
1998 Concord Art Association, Juror’s Award, Sam Walker, George Nick
1991 Springfield Arts League, Juror’s Award, Leiter-Sandowski Award
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Fidelity Corporation
Parker, Coulter, Daley and White, Boston, MA
Procorp, Framingham, MA
Enterprise Bank, Lowell, MA
PUBLICATIONS
2013 The Boston Globe, December 19 – People & Places
2002 Art New England Magazine, December/January –ReviewsSharon Arts, Craig Stockwell
2002 The American River, exhibition catalogue
2001 ArtsMedia Magazine, winter – Feature: Art Confronts Agoraphobia, Ellen Howards
1998 The Boston Globe, March 8 – Sunday Best
1995 New Hampshire Profiles Magazine, Oct. – Reviews
1994 The Boston Globe, June 5 – The Subtle Medium of Monotype, Caroline L. Cole
1988 The Boston Globe, July – The Moment’s Spirit, Meredith Fife Day
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Powers Gallery – 1987 to Present
Gallery Twist – Lexington, MA 2017 TO PRESENT
The Gallery at the Clown – 2004 to 2007
Sharon Arts – 1998 to 2009
Chicago Center for the Print – 1988-1994
McGowan Fine Art – Concord, NH – 2004-2006, 2018
EDUCATION & ORGANIZATIONS
Massachusetts College of Art – BFA
Monotype Guild of New England – member
Boston Printmakers – member
P. C. Lawson Monotypes 