Etching Gallery

For me an etching is an intense process of development. The combining of age old processes with new techniques to create and share a visual concept. I do most of my sketching on tracing paper. This way I can overlap, move or reverse the drawings to fit a graphic pattern. You noticed I said "reverse". Etching is a negative process and the artist must create in reverse because the printed image will be backward from the drawn image.

When the drawings are completed, I determine the size of the paper I will be working on and what size plate or plates I will be needing. I like to be adventuresome and stray away from conventional size borders, plate marks, etc. Sometimes I cut odd sized plates or make the plates larger then the paper to eliminate borders altogether. I even fit several plates together like a jig saw puzzle.

Having majored in three dimensional art forms I have tried to attain a sense of balance and use of shape as a tool that can be transferred to the printed paper. I enjoy the use of negative space as a part of the finished art.