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Pre-2000

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Snake Charmer II
Lulu at Home

 

Nocturnal Garden
Garden

Playing Card: Six of spades
Playing Card: Nine of Hearts

Woodland Bed
Wildlife Garden
Cottage Garden

Night Barrens
River Bend (the Wall)

Island Nocturne
To the Islands II

To the Islands
Islands in the Sea

Pastoral Landscape III
Pastoral Landscape IV: Potato Fields

Pastoral Landscape VI: Black Clouds
Pastoral Landscape V

The Valley – Nocturne
The Valley — Pastoral

Rhea’s Lily: Pin-up for the Rainforest
River God Pin-up

Seascape (Inside and Outside)
River (Outside and Inside)

Green Mountain Pastoral
Studio Pastoral

Still Life with Hippo III
Hippo Idyll

Still Life with Hippo I
Still Life with Hippo II

Nightbloom I
Nightbloom II
Nightbloom III (Thyrsus)
Nightbloom IV

Source
Specimens

Still Life Fantasy: River, Sea, and Sky
Fragments

Untitled Interior II
Interior: the Wall

Variations on a theme by Kandinsky
Interior: Still Life and Sea

Interior: Still Life Symphony I
Interior: Still Life Symphony II

Interior: Household Gods
Interior: Sleeping Place

Sea Horse
River God

 

Untitled (Sextet)
Untitled (Sextet)

River God
Kore
Trinity

 

 

About these prints

These pre-2000 black-and-white prints—sequenced here (generally) from latest to earliest—offer a window into the evolution and development of my imagery and work.

My first foray into printmaking was in 1988 at St. Michael's Printshop in St. John's, where I studied etching and relief printmaking. I was immediately drawn to the physicality and directness of carving wood and linoleum. About this time, serendipitously, a friend who worked at an art-supply store persuaded me to purchase her entire inventory of deeply discounted lino-cutting materials and that began a printmaking trajectory that is still going strong.

Printmaking has now been a major part of my studio practice for more than 25 years. I work in both print and paint media, often simultaneously and sometimes within the same piece. The two media complement and influence each other in formal, technical, and conceptual ways that I find exciting and inspiring.

My earliest relief prints were line drawings whose subjects progressed from Classical Greek mythological figures to my own lares et penates (household gods). Many of these early prints depict interiors inhabited by plants and cats and still-life leitmotifs; they were created for the exhibition Outside and Inside. As that title suggests, they present images of both interior and exterior worlds, sometimes within the same print.

The landscape images came a little later, created for the exhibition Pastoral and Otherwise. These prints depict the barrens outside of St. John's, islands along the Southern Shore of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula, the decorative patchwork-quilt pattern of fields in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, and views of my own garden.

This body of pre-2000 linocuts contains the seeds of later work; for example, the night images have since blossomed into the ongoing Landscape Dreaming series of prints and the Nocturne paintings.

A few prints from several of these early editions are still available. For further information or to inquire about purchasing a piece, please contact me.


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