I have been making art for as long as I can remember. At summer camp I drew trees and won a prize for my pastel drawing. I wanted to do a print after seeing shapes in a rain puddle. I cut out the forms I saw and pasted them on cardboard and rolled ink over them. What I do as a printmaker today isn’t so very different from that first basic process.
In the college of my era there was no studio art major offered. I think applied art was thought not a serious subject for study. Since I have devoted my life to art, it seems to me to be the most serious, most in depth aspiration that could be undertaken. Famous artists of past and present are an endless font for understanding what can be done in art making. The study of artists brings alive history, psychology and, most important, the mystery of beauty. I started as a teenager to love Modigliani, then Edward Munch. Today I look at prints by Chaikia Booker. Tomorrow I will discover another artist and be moved by their work.
My first serious study was at Pratt Graphics Center in New York City. After that I studied print making with Carl Rantz, Marty Epp, Catherine Kernan and Randy Garber. I worked at Mixit Print studio in Somerville, Massachusetts for 10 years.
I have an M.S.A.E from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Professors Diana Korzenik and Abigail Housen were influential teachers for me. I wrote my master’s thesis on inner images and art making.
Photo: Jessica Scranton Photography