My printmaking includes woodcuts, engraving, silkscreen, and etching. I like to try to combine as many processes as possible in one print; I am rather fond of layers.
I shoot film in all kinds of formats from 120 to 8x10. I also dabble in historic processes such as copperplate photogravure and albumen, in addition to the less historic ziaype and silver gelatin.
I am more attracted to the utilitarian than the purely decorative. I do not think I am “investigating” anything, nor looking at combinations of things or juxtapositions; all I am doing is making. I try to pay attention to workmanship, as, at bottom, I think of my work as craft. There is ever room for improvement.
Scotland, photo credit: J. Hartnell-Beavis