Figurative etchings

My prints, including etching and monoprints are explorations of the intimate nature of observation and meaning. These works are mostly translations of drawings done directly from the subject; observations through a window, objects tossed on a table, or figures from a model sessions. I wade through my sketchbooks and wait for a certain gesture or line, or even a memory of the specific drawing process to move me, and then the act of recreation begins. I hope the etchings retain some of the initial spontaneity of that first observed line layered with the quiet resolution the etching process brings.

Cinnamon, drypoint etching