The Lone Road
Travel has always inspired my art and recording my journey informs the series entitled The Lone Road. Each summer I would log thousands of hours riding my motorcycle in some of the most beautiful country in the North America. During that time I encountered a variety of weather and these monotypes give visual form to the sensations of riding through rain, sleet, wind, and blistering sun.
monoprint with poly plate and chine colle
monotype with chine colle and polyplate litho
graphite on cradle board
Hundreds of those miles with only the sound of rubber on asphalt. I absorb the myriad smells each season brings and take in the visuals with a painter's eye. My monotypes are the results of long hours in a meditative state and express the colors of weather, glimpsed farmsteads, plowed fields, and lights reflecting off wet pavement.