I have always been an observer by nature, sitting and soaking up all that the world has to offer. I capture the moments that I find to be intriguing by taking pictures. However, photo-realism has never been my style. As an undergraduate I discovered printmaking. I find the processes involved in creating screenprints and monotypes to be a very organic experience. Using these techniques to develop art helped me to develop my style and process. I make art through the use of hard edges, vivid colors and slight abstraction. Once I take a photograph I modify it on the computer and use that as a base for the final illustration. Through the abstraction and play on color, I hope to create a more fantastical, dream like world that helps the viewer escape from the everyday reality, if only for a moment. I also hope to evoke an emotional response similar to the way I felt when I created the piece.

The subject of my work is usually people and landscapes. I also like to incorporate jagged shapes and intense color whenever possible. In my latest works I have attempted to fuse nature, architecture and life into the same image, while at the same time combine photography, graphic design technology and printmaking techniques. I do not always have all these elements in every piece, this is the idea that I have been working with for the past few months and will continue to investigate and add to this body of work in the following months.

This series of work is one that was developed as I transitioned from printmaking to graphic design, but still incorporating the style and technique I used in printmaking. It is a study of memories and time and how after a while all memories seem to blend together, making each memory unclear or foggy. The first images that were created we made using a single photograph, which I took myself, modified on the computer, and created illustrations, using printmaking techniques. I then took it further by integrating several photographs taken in different place at different times, linked by the feelings I was experiencing in different places with different people. I took simplified the style and ideas to create a website which uses similar shapes and color as the posters in the series.