Inspired by the illustrations in antique coffee table books produced by ornithophiles of yesteryear, the Dirty Bird series features gel-plate prints & painted birds, with just a fun smattering of curse words.
Gelatin plate prints can create a myriad of possibilities when partnered with stencils, mark-making tools, & even natural materials. Some prints complete their raison d’être in one fell stroke, while others continue on to become nestled in with other media in collages.
Abstracts lured me into their sphere sometime in the later Naughts and I’ve been enamoured ever since. While I started on the smallest canvases in existence (about 2 inches square), I soon branched out onto the largest ones I could fit in my vehicle (four-foot square). My inventory varies now between small and large, but nothing quite so small & nothing quite so large.
