About my Work

The motives of my work are real places or things which attract me. By simplifying, I try to reveal essentials. For keeping fresh I oscillate between simplicity and complexity, abstraction and narration, the ordinary and the spectacular.

Starting point is the work "on location", where I either work directly onto the plate or create a detailed design. The realisation takes place in the studio where I etch or cut and finally print the plates.

Printmaking is indirect: after analyzing, the image is simplified or split up into several layers/plates, and, by going through different working steps, reassembled during printing. It is created spontaneously and at the same time contains the energy of an elaborate process.

Right now I am working on woodblock prints and enjoy the slowness of cutting.

Art values of mine are naturalness, devotion and vitality.

Printing with the help of the artist Dyan Hatanaka, The Print Studio, Hamilton, Canada, 2007