Metal Collage Detail

Digitally printed printing plate cut and assembled with wire and mounted on a hardware cloth frame. Materials… [more]

Metal Collage Detail Metal Collage Detail

Bottle Caps Recycled Detail

Dimensional piece using recycled bottle caps assembled with digital prints on beverage cans and watercolor… [more]

Bottle Caps Recycled Detail Bottle Caps Recycled Detail

Detail of Page From Forest Book One

Digitally printed printing plates, wire, hand loom knit assembled on hardware cloth with a metal frame.… [more]

Detail of Page From Forest Book One Detail of Page From Forest Book One

Mariposa Grove Three Detail

48 x 110 inch (121.9s x 279.40 cm)Maripose Grove Three is assembled with digitally printed beverage cans,… [more]

Mariposa Grove Three Detail Mariposa Grove Three Detail

Metal Mesh Detail

Digital print on printing plate assembled with wire and metal mesh on a hardware cloth frame.… [more]

Metal Mesh Detail Metal Mesh Detail

Reemay Assemblage

Reemay Assemblage - as assortment of digital prints on reemay melted and attached with wire, stitching… [more]

Reemay Assemblage Reemay Assemblage

Detail of Page from Book of Forests One

Digital print on organdy and pimatex cotton. Rayon threads are used to assemble the pieces with twigs… [more]

Detail of Page from Book of Forests One Detail of Page from Book of Forests One

Welcome

 3/26/2013: My website is undergoing some renovation!

Digital media fascinates and inspires me. Since participating in my first Photoshop Class in 1998, digital imaging has become a creative tool for my art. I continually investigate software and the use the power of these tools for creating art. All my explorations into creating images led me to pursuing alternative sources for printing those images. At this time digitally printed alternative surfaces drives my work and is a major component of my artwork.

What started out as a way to document, show and promote my work moved into creating elements to enhance it and then became an artistic way of life. In 2005 the Arizona Commission on the Arts awarded me an artist project grant for my submission “Expanding the Digital Print to Uncommon Surfaces”. At this point I became immersed in constructing every imaginable surface suitable for printing. In the years since I have printed thousands of creative original surfaces on my “art printers”.

My Digital Alternative Surfaces site, including Digital Alternative Studio and Digital Alternative Journaling, are a reflection of my work in all phases. My focus is to fill these pages with artwork, printed surfaces, studio work, creative process, tutorials, digital journaling techniques, materials for purchase and more. I invite you to join me on my journey.