Terroir* Ink Paintings:

Signposts of Memory

This series explores memory and the meaning of material in the context of place and personal story. Abstracted landscapes are crafted using the artist’s handmade Terroir inks whose ingredients are gathered from meaningful places. An event is remembered, a journey is undertaken, and ingredients are collected to make these highly unique inks. Each painting thus contains stone dust, flowers, bits of trash, dirt, or fragments of shell. The found objects are then mixed with ocean water, snow, rain or alcohol. Because of their unique and unpredictable composition, these inks shift in unexpected ways, they granulate, they surprise, they blend in ways very different from commercial paints or inks. The final paintings contain both playfulness of experience and contemplation of the extraordinary moments in life; the signposts of memory.

*Terroir-a French term used in wine-making to describe the essence of a particular place where the grapes for the wine are grown. It encompasses a combination of natural factors including the soil, the climate, the topography, the water-table, the microbiome and even the human choices -our movements, the things we take and the things we leave behind.

Works in this series available for purchase.

-”Finally We Found A Quiet Place”, Ink on Yupo Paper

  • Rainstorm

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in resin.

    8" X 10"

  • Edges

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in resin.

    9" X 12"

  • January

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in Resin.

    8" X 10"

  • The Night I Missed The Northern Lights

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in resin.

    8" X 10"

  • The Other Side Of The Sunset

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in Resin.

    8" X 10"

  • SandCloud

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in Resin.

    8" X 10"

  • Star Walk

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

  • Gathering Storm

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

  • Lightning Tree

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

    NFS

  • Across The Lake

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in resin.

    8" X 10"

  • The River is Sometimes On Fire

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in Resin.

    9" X 12"

  • Murmuration

    Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in resin.

    8" X 10"

  • Storm Cove

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

    Sold via Cove Gallery

  • Snow Path

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

  • Heartwood

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

  • Amethyst Falls

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

  • The Night Sea

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, matted in 8” X 8” archival white mat.

  • Canyon Lands

    Handmade Ink on Yupo Paper, mounted on cradled wood. Coated in Resin.

    5” X 5”

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