My Process

Like my mother’s needlework, my artistic process is unhurried and contemplative. It begins by documenting the textures and forms I see in my natural surroundings whether out my window or abroad, through photography, honoring and recording the autographic mark that place makes on a person. The photographs are decayed through digital reduction, much like the memory of a person or place as time passes and the memory starts to fade. This reduction is intentional and acknowledges the beauty of the natural world viewed through technology is never as magnificent as it is in person.

The visual images are methodically transferred to Clayboard, an acid-free ultra smooth kaolin clay ground panel, then painted using fluid acrylic, medium, and a small brush. From a distance, my work may resemble a photographic image; however, upon closer inspection, one discovers a surface teeming with small stitch-like marks. This detail transforms the viewer’s perception of the original object. The brushwork is reminiscent of needlework both in its application and in the emotional connection it invokes for me as the daughter of a stitcher.