Link to Previous Featured Guest Karin Sanborn |
It's All About Arts ********************************************* My work has been included in three books, a movie, and public commissions in MA and NY. I have worked as a scientist, phlebotomist, horse trainer, tugboat cook, nurse’s aid, telephone receptionist, janitor, pizza deliverer, cake decorator, and handyman/maid. Currently I am the curator of the Perkins Gallery at the Striar Jewish Community Center in Stoughton. I have always been an artist. ********************************************What is your medium? ********************************************* K. S.: I work in monotype or monoprint printmaking and mixed medium painting. I like to combine these two methods into one composition whenever I can. Printmaking: Monotype & monoprint art is about using pressure on a surface to create an image. Each is completely unique-one of a kind. Sometimes I paint dead fish and press them onto paper or fabric (monoprint). Other times I roll out ink on a piece of plexi-glas. Then the plexi-glas is covered with a piece of paper and rolled through an etching press. The ink is literally squashed into the paper. I can do this over and over to build layers of color and imagery (monoytpe). Painting: Mixed medium painting is about combining whatever materials and techniques feel right with whatever it takes to get it all to stick together. The science of choosing materials that are compatible and durable is important to me but the creation process I leave to serendipity. Sometimes things work, sometimes they fail miserably-this is not easy to accept but it is ok. I like to see where I will end up. It is not satisfying to me if I am just executing a preconceived idea. ********************************************* ********************************************* ********************************************* ********************************************* |
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