Taste of Ashes

Flowers for Stones, Cyanotype, Typewriter
9" x 12", 2010

New New York Publishers

Sara Sanders, (untitled)
Watercolor Monotype, 2010
Published Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop















Glen Baldridge, Lucky Sevens (Aspen)
Silkscreen with Scratch Off Ink, 2009
Published By Forth Estate







New New York Publishers is an exhibition I curated at the Frans Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium, June 25- August 6. It has more than thirty works from print publishers Cannonball Press, Forth Estate, and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. If you are going to be in Belgium over the summer check it out.

Frans Masereel Center

Tempter of Man, Cyanotype, Typewriter, 2010, 9" x 12"

I am teaching a class this summer on using the flatbed offset proof press as a drawing tool, at the Frans Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium. The center has an amazing printmaking set up for artists working in most print media. My class will utilize lithography, silkscreen, relief printmaking and monotype techniques in combination with one another. Head to their website for more details http://www.fransmasereelcentrum.be/

Tempter of Man is new image that will be exhibited along with several others in the exhibition of my work:
Taste of Ashes, at Frans Masereel Center, June 21- August 6.

The Weight of Black

Phil Sanders- Double Mast- 2009 - Collage, Silkscreen Ink- 22" x 16"

Phil Sanders- Black Flag- 2008- Silkscreen- 20" x 16"- Published by Forth Estate

Tom Spleth- On the Cosmology of an Alternate Universe- 27.5" x 38"-
Published by- Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

These works are part of the exhibition, The Weight of Black, curated by Kathryn Gremley at the Penland Gallery, Penland , NC. If you will be in the area come check it out. May 25- July 18- reception June 4, 7 pm- 8:30 pm.

Working on the Black Nun- Photo Chris Porcarelli

Back from Penland and more photos to come. Got a few things done despite my students efforts to keep me focused on their work. Great bunch of kids (not really kids but they will always be my little ducks) Special thanks to Chris Porcarelli for helping me get the Nuns made. Without him I would never have gotten it done and they rock. Photos to come once they arrive via UPS.

all my ducks, spring concentration 2010- penland

Spring at Penland

I am teaching an eight week concentration at the Penland School of Craft right now and it is hard to believe with all the beautiful weather that just three weeks ago we had this snow fall. The students are working hard and making great work. I'll be posting shots from their next exhibition in a week or so.






Visiting artist Steve Johnson gave the best drawing demonstrations I have ever seen and all of us were greatful. Using a weight belt and come-along straps Steve made it possible for the model to hold very difficult poses.

More to come. I'll be posting some shots of the slip cast sculpture I am working on, Gunwale I, along with the work as it devlopes for my upcoming exhibition, Taste of Ashes, at Frans Masereel Centorum this summer.

retake the hill,
Digital Photograph
from VOL II- the con

New work coming soon. I promise.

Currently I am working on the three volume artist book- The Stage, The Con, and The Revelation, and my upcoming solo exhibition, Taste of Ashes, at the Franz Masereel Center this June.