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Updated: 3.16.2009

LOIS BEATTY
RESUME

From a background of painting and collage, then paper pulp painting, I made what felt like a natural progression into monoprinting. My prints are multi-layered, very painterly, and I use drypoint as a way of dramatizing line. When I found myself in New Hampshire several years ago, I gratefully joined Two Rivers Printmaking Studio to explore a wide range of traditional print-making methods. I was not so much interested in producing work in multiples as I was in expanding my vocabulary for mark and surface. I am drawn to the fluidity and spontaneity of the monoprint. My imagery is seen to fall on the abstract side of whatever that line is, but it is always informed by reality: landscape, still life, and botanical or human forms. I see contrast and conversion when I draw shape and edge: bones that can be read as rigid or biomorphic, rusted metal that is both sharp and weathering.