"To touch is to manipulate, ply and poke at.  It is to flex and penetrate and pierce.  It is what we do to our environment and to each other.  It is what I do to my work.  Manhandled, stretched and prodded into strange forms.  Touch is affected by a sentimental cord, or perhaps just touched in the head.  The artist as mad scientist.  Each piece an experiment.  My work is touched."

How this work is created

All my works start from an etching.  Etching involves using acid to bite texture into a metal plate.  Traditionally heavy ink, the consistency of oil paint is rubbed into this texture and wiped off the surface.  The plate is then run through a press with wet paper.  This embosses the paper into the texture picking up the image.

Instead of a press, I spread an acrylic medium on to an inked plate and let it dry.  When dry, I can pull a print literally by pulling off the acrylic and the image comes too.  This creates a textured stretchy print that I then glue over forms of Styrofoam and plaster.  After that there is further manipulation with mediums, paints, resins, etc. until I feel I'm done.