ARTIST'S STATEMENT
regarding media and techniques
These unusual works of pyrographic art are a unique blend of traditional and contemporary arts media. The works begin on one of several woods, and feature burning either with poker rods or an electric woodburning tool, transparent color applications using home-made oil-based stains, oil pastels or color pencils, and at times carving, masking and various texturization techniques. Building on the resultant work, these images are often scanned and further developed using electronic (digital) imaging software. Original works on wood or in digital form often become the precursers for others by manipulation, blending, or recomposition. Prints are individually signed and numbered and distinguished as either "reproductions" when they replicate an original work on wood, or as "original prints" when they constitute a first generation end result and a matching precurser does not exist in any other form.
DEFINITIONS AND TERMS
Original work in wood refers to an original image rendered on wood usually involving burning, and if featuring colors other than browns, transparent colorant applications as described above.
Original graphic/digital arts print refers to an extensively manipulated image derived (scanned) from one or more original works on wood which become "intermediates" for a unique finished digital work on paper. These original digital arts prints or "giclees" are printed individually by the artist using the latest in archival pigmented inks and on museum-quality fine arts papers, are individually signed and numbered by the artist and may vary slightly from one to another with each print in the edition at the artist's discretion.
Fine art reproduction offset lithograph or giclee/digital art print refers to an archival print from an original work on wood reproduced either by offset printing (many of my earlier works are reproduced by this method) or by digital printing on an Epson Stylus Color 3000 running Generations archival pigmented inks.
Museum or archival quality means 100+ year longevity against deterioration in the quality of the image under "normal interior lighting", and is referenced to a standard used by the Wilhelm Research Institute in the testing of arts media. The inks I use are pigment-based, (as are high quality artist's paints and preferable to dye-based inks for longevity) and have surpassed the 100-year mark in ongoing testing by the Wilhelm Research Institute.
Pyrogravure colorée is a French term refering to work combining both pyrography, or woodburning, with colorant applications.
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