What kind of Art do you do?
Contemporary Craft
That's a good question. It took me a while to find a label that matched my work, but a visit to the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft made me feel right at home! Contemporary Craft artists produce objects of art made primarily from craft materials: clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood or found/recycled materials. In my case, the "recycled material" is paper. Tissue paper (think birthday parties and holiday gift bags) and/or packaging paper (often via Amazon!) are found in all of my work of this genre.
The subject matter is usually based in nature. My style tends to live somewhere between Impressionistic and Expressionistic. What's the difference?
While the works are based on viewing the real world, an impressionistic approach recreates that view as if I had only glanced at it for a moment. You won't find realistic detail here, but the impression of the objects through color, light and texture.
Expressionism is directly focused on an emotional response to the real world. The resulting piece is much more abstract, and may not look at all like the object or event that inspired the work.
My studio! Tissue Paper collection