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.

In the vault there are 96 pieces on the walls.

No installation shots yet. It’s good to see selections of my work together on the gallery walls, the transitions between them and the surprises.

In a few more days I am to carry rolls and piles of drawings to Gallery Joe. An unusual exhibit of my work will be mounted next week, and open to the public Friday October 28, running through Saturday November 26.

It will include new large drawings, and also many small ones I have made through the years. Preparing for this has been fascinating, reminding me of ways I used to work. And also of forgotten friends, family moments, beloved pets, and of how much smaller the trees in the back field used to be.