My printmaking is strongly influenced by natural landscapes and my garden. Here I find patterns, forms, shadows, and water reflections that grab my attention. Images created on a camera become abstracted through print making processes: collaging, simultaneous colour inking, posterizing, colour selection edits or reduction to black and white. Resulting prints become distillations of feelings, memories and associations, most often based on my deep connection with nature and concerns for the future.
I received a BFA in 2010 after studies a North Island College and Emily Carr University. My main interests continue to be printmaking and ceramics. Previous careers were in healthcare and park naturalist work. Please enjoy the following slide show.
Contact: claygardener [at] shaw [dot] ca
Yellow Lily, collagraph, monoprint, 16.5 x 22.4 cm, simultaneous colour inking, yellow chine-collé, à la poupée red 
Lily with Purple, collagraph, monoprint, 16.5 x 22.4 cm, simultaneous colour inking, chine-collé 
White Lily, collagraph, monoprint, 16.5 x 22.4 cm 
Lily Collagraph Plate, 17 x 22.7 cm, used to produce the three previous prints, materials: PCV base, mat board, carpenter glue, acrylic media, carborundum 
LithoLily, photolithograph, monoprint, 22.5 x 28 cm 
Lace, collagraph, monoprint, 13.5 x 18 cm , simultaneous colour inking 
Exploding Flower, collagraph, monoprint, 13.2 x 18 cm, relief roll of sienna 
Leaving Traces #3, screen print, edition of 6, 26.5 x 38.5 cm, colour separation transparencies 
Sand Plant, half tone screen print, 42 x 59 cm 
Bad Day in the Life of a Plant, screen print, edition of 9, 56 x 76 cm, ink drawing half tone upper right 
Marsh, photolithography collage, monoprint, 31.5 x 64 cm 
Fledgling, woodcut, edition of 15, 27 x 39 cm
Comox Valley Printmakers Association 