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Relief Prints

All of my relief prints are hand-carved and printed using archival black ink.

Colored prints are individually painted with handmade inks and gouache derived from plants I cultivate, or from ethically foraged minerals, clays, plants, and discarded metals found across Minnesota.

The Process

In the relief print titled Protect Your Happiness, an opossum is surrounded by lupine flowers. Since this work was inspired in part by lupine, I created ink from their sweetly-scented blossoms and used it to paint this piece. These flowers were responsibly gathered in Two Harbors, Minnesota. All colors (yellow green, blue grey, grey, and pink) were derived from the lupine flowers shown in the circular photos.

Woodland Anarchy

Toad wearing an anarchy sweater surrounded by mushrooms.

Hand of Glory

Burning hand candle, painted with gouache made from orange brick dust gathered in Lake City, MN

Midsummer Blackbird

Yellow-headed blackbird and coreopsis. Painted with ink made with coreopsis grown in Northfield, MN

Celestial Ram

Painted with red brick dust gouache from Lake City, and onion skin ink from Northfield, MN

Bittersweet Nightshade

Painted with rust gathered in Northfield, and sumac ink from Nerstrand, MN

Illuminate

Three burning candles, painted with sulphur cosmo ink cultivated in Northfield, MN

Sculptures

The Anima collection was inspired by memento mori, reminders of our mortality so we can live with purpose. This series is also when I began incorporating more natural elements within my work, and are composed of real animal bones, gemstones, feathers, air-dry clay, and mica-based pigments.