Solo Exhibition; From the Earth, Imaginary Landscapes
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This series of imaginary landscape paintings came out my residency at the NCC East 40. I made paints using historic, even primitive methods, from the clay dug from the premises, woad I grew there, and other natural materials. I made slabs to paint on from stoneware clay I reclaimed from buckets on the premises and that was fired to cone 6. All of these paintings are in the exhibition "From the Earth, Imaginary Landscapes" now on view at the Communications Hall Gallery of Northampton Community College's Main Campus in Bethlehem PA.
This series of imaginary landscape paintings came out my residency at the NCC East 40. I made paints using historic, even primitive methods, from the clay dug from the premises, woad I grew there, and other natural materials. I made slabs to paint on from stoneware clay I reclaimed from buckets on the premises and that was fired to cone 6. All of these paintings are in the exhibition "From the Earth, Imaginary Landscapes" now on view at the Communications Hall Gallery of Northampton Community College's Main Campus in Bethlehem PA.
Summer 2022 Summer Residency
In the summer of 2022 I did a 10-week residency at the NCC East 40 using ancient and historical practices to create natural, sustainable art materials. In the course of the residency I grew, harvested and made pigment from woad, used natural dyes on fiber and recycled the leftover dye baths to produce lake pigments, used rock and clay dug from the premises to make pigments, a bonfire to make vine pigment and burnt sienna pigment (from the local clay) and then made oil, egg tempera, watercolor and pastels from the pigments. I used recycled clay to make painting panels for the oil and egg tempera paints. Works created from these materials are scheduled for a solo exhibition in September 2023 at Northampton Community College.
