31 March 2025
Last update to this site is now well over a year ago. I haven’t quit (because I cannot quit). All time available for creative projects has been dedicated to printing and making books under The Heavy Duty Press imprint. This did include the completion of the Hail, Holy Queen project, which featured a giclee printed hand made collage, and some collage-inspired design in the most recent book, Baskerville for Brummies. One evening in the collage lab this winter saw the beginnings of a new series, and there are at least a half dozen finished collages from 2023 and 2024 in need of framing. Low priority. If you would like to catch up on all that has been happening, you can read all about it in The New Moon Monitor.
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14 November 2024
New limited edition giclee prints of two collages from the Going for the One suite, and the three most recent collaborative collages with Allan Bealy (Brooklyn, NY) are now hanging and for sale (framed and unframed) at Noble Rind Artisan Cheese in Viroqua, Wisconsin, and through the Etsy storefront. As always, original collages are on display at Lagniappe Brasserie in New Berlin, Wisconsin, and affordable prints and greeting cards are at the Viroqua Public Market. Looking forward to a creatively productive winter.
27 December 2023
Recent original collages are now on display as part of the (W)understory exhibit in Gallery III at the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin. I feel very fortunate to have been paired with two extremely talented sculptors: Susan Kaye (ceramics) and Brian House (bronze). The exhibit runs through 10 March 2024, and includes the Whaoila! (2022), Going for the One (2022), and White Man’s Weakness (2015) suites. Original collages and limited edition giclee prints of the Whaoila! suite may be purchased through the Overture Center.
Limited edition Whaoila! giclee prints are also hanging and for sale (framed and unframed) at Noble Rind Artisan Cheese in Viroqua, Wisconsin. As always, original collages are on display at Lagniappe Brasserie in New Berlin, Wisconsin, and affordable prints and greeting cards are at the Viroqua Public Market. Please visit Etsy for online sales. Thank you.
31 May 2023
New original collage suite, Whaoila!, and large format, limited edition giclee prints, will be hung at Noble Rind Cheese Company in the Hotel Fortney in Viroqua, Wisconsin, on Friday, 2 June, and will remain on display throughout the summer. Prints will be for sale via Etsy in the near future.
I will be participating in the Winding Roads Art Tour, 3-4 June 2023, at Der Klubhaus (letterpress studio). Open 10am-5pm to visitors. All ages.
26 February 2023
A few things to report. Artwork at Lagniappe Brasserie in New Berlin, Wisconsin, has been updated with the latest suite of framed original collages, Going for the One, and prints are now available at the Viroqua Public Market and Etsy. A new set of “starts” has been completed and sent to Allan Bealy, marking the 5th year of a continuing series of collaborations. And Sarah at Noble Rind in Viroqua, Wisconsin, has agreed to hang my work in her fine European-inspired delicatessen in the newly refurbished Hotel Fortney beginning in June of this year. Thank you for visiting here, and there(s).
2 January 2023
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
End-of-year celebrations all wrapped up, and full up to the armpits with ideas and dreams, reflections and visions, looking forward to seeing what the creative season brings. Over the past few weeks, this website has been thoroughly refreshed with a new template, supporting text on the more recent collage album pages, Turn the Page and Tales from Phonographic Oceans, and added links to remind you that prints are available on Etsy and at the Viroqua Public Market. Thank you for visiting.
24 December 2022
Alas, winter has arrived, and the darkest days are behind us.
A belated Happy Solstice to you, and a Jolly Christmas as many of us celebrate the humble birth of the innocent baby Jesus, the man who out-holied the righteous of the Western world by befriending the poor and the social outcasts, taught us to do unto others rather than to don’t, to love one another as we love ourselves, to revere and respect the feminine, to show compassion, and to forgive those who trespass against us. It’s a birthday to remember, and worthy of a celebration.
Cheers!
17 October 2022
Excited to be wrapping up another year in the cemeteries of driftless Wisconsin, which puts most creative activity on hold for eight months, with the exception of the annual summer break and, in the fall, time for hotel room desk collage labs in the evenings on the road, which recently allowed the completion of another year of collaborations (above) with Allan Bealy.
The winter months cannot come soon enough.