“The Pink Panther. “ Mixed Media Collage 20″x20.” 2023.
Beginning the Creative Process Using Mixed-Media Collage. . .
My Mixed-Media Collage Journey began over 30 years ago when I was in an MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Graduate school had me so stressed out that, ironically, I couldn’t paint. Everything I painted looked so bad that one day in complete frustration I tore up one of my failing paintings and threw it on the floor. To my complete astonishment, I looked down and saw that the pieces looked fabulous all flung together and lying on top of one another. I realized that sometimes you just have to change your perspective and orientation to perceive and create.. And my process of tossing random pieces together became closely related to the process of the I Ching, where one receives answers to questions by tossing yarrow stalks or coins as a means of communing with the universal.
I am an American contemporary artist working primarily with mixed media.
