These 3 large woodcuts on mylar each have 2 flower portraits sewn on to them.

The flowers were taken by myself, on my phone. I call them a protrait becasue it it is a picture of a particular flower at it’s prime.  The photos were cropped and optimized and shared with Instagram.  The photos were printed, and then photocopied at a magnified resolution.   I cut out the photocopied image of the flower and transferred it to paper with an etching press.

Each of the flowers has a background of a different leaf pattern.  Each of the leaves were carved onto a different lino block and printed several times to create a pattern.

The vertical lines on each of the flowers were printed with a drypoint plate. The lines are meant to give a sense of movement and dynamism.

The flower portraits are hand sewn to the mylar at the top of each one.

The 2 darker works have some hand colouring on the reverse side of the mylar. Each image is 40 by 34 inches.

The smaller image shown at the top of the page has a collage sewn on to it and measures 16 by 16 inches.

This print, “Flower Quilt” also from the “Moments in Time” show is made up of many different little prints and pieces of older prints sewn together. Woodcut and linocuts are then printed on top.  Some of the original images I made for this show were included in this quilt.  It is 33.5 by 19 inches.

Moments in Time utilizes the type of spontaneous images made possible by the ubiquity of smartphones. In my daily life, I am often on foot and take the opportunity to notice the day-to-day changes the seasons bring in the lawns and gardens of my neighbourhood.  When I see a flower in bloom, or brightly coloured fall leaves, things that appear so temporarily, I capture these images in their prime, and crop and edit them to highlight their unique beauty. Now a permanent record of the temporary beauty exists; close up, cropped and singled out. Translating the images from a photograph to a print by using the photocopy transfer process gives the images a softer and more delicate quality. Layering and collaging these with linocut images of other foliage, pieces of older prints, and passages of text and maps suggests memories, keepsakes, or pages from a journal.  Hand sewing the collages together physically joins the paper while the stitches add colour and texture.