“Tree huggers,” an exhibition of works by a few artists at Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York opens Saturday April 14. Several of my drawings are included.

John Thornton has made a little video about my work and life. He completed it yesterday, and can be seen here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-psW_kGglM

Greeting the winter 

After making the line etching seen below with the help of Master Printmaker Cindi Ettinger, I enlisted Silicon Gallery, also in Philadelphia, to work with me on a digital print. I would eventually combine this with the etching. In this piece I scanned one of my own drawings of a woodsy riverbank. Once the tones, colors, and scale suited, I added some text along the side. It is a 1698 quote from William Penn expressing the importance of balancing frugality and liberality. Not a sexy message, but a good one.
We made an edition.
Then with Cindi I made another state of the line etching, this time in a dark brown ink on beautiful translucent Gampi paper. She trimmed each and mounted them delicately onto the digital prints. Hence the mix of line etching and digital print here and in four others in the series.

Last Friday I stopped at the house of Vijay Kumar, a printmaker and teacher in Brooklyn, to leave some of my work with him. He’s co-curating a group show of prints by both American and Indian artists, “Multiple Encounters Second Edition.” This will open in New Delhi at the Lalit Kala Akademi on January 23, 2012.
I’m pleased, naturally.
Pleased for the inclusion in general, and pleased because he chose two prints I made as part of a series of responses to writings by Quakers. This project was a passionate one for me three years ago but has not been seen much.
There are five pairs of prints. Each pair has an intial simple line etching, and then a second state of that line etching mounted on a digital print that I also made.
The first state is shown here. It is “Happy the Place,” 8.5 inches square. I will post the second state soon.
The show will travel to other parts of India and then perhaps to some locations in the U.S. It would be so interesting to see this show – prints by 60 artists from each of the two countries involved.