Carved Wood

Woodcuts are one of the oldest forms of art making.  In my case, I learned woodcuts as a child from the man who wrote the Speedball® textbooks.  This happenstance meeting and childhood dialogue matured into a form that for more than 30 years has offered an unlimited opportunity to experiment and create images in new and challenging ways. 

During the 1980’s I widely exhibited enormous woodcut panels that I never printed.  Rather, I chose to paint directly onto and carve into and at times reattach the carved out sections to create a hybrid painting/print.  This marking and use of printed materials has been utilized across a wide range of my work, both in painting and sculpture or a combination of the two.  From large scale, translucent hanging works to small multi-sided boxes or huge narrative-style images to simple scratched paintings, this series covers a wide range of time, style and material.