Please feel free to set up a private showing or check it out during store hours (in-between yoga classes) at your leisure. This show will hang through mid-January.

“Alaska is the land of grand landscapes and vast skies. Experiencing these landscapes alone touches us profoundly and we realize the eternal quiet perseverance of nature. Through this experience, we comprehend the humility and brevity of our human lives, coming and going – as part of the big cycle of nature. The grand landscapes and skies of Alaska inspire my prints featuring linoleum- and woodcuts.

Growing up in East Germany, I dreamt of seeing the far North. This unlikely dream came true when I worked on my Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), studying soil microbes across the Arctic. Many expeditions led me to places in the Arctic that left a deep impression on me—places where I felt absolutely content.

After completing my Ph.D., I enrolled in printmaking classes at UAF. These classes allowed me to begin to translate the landscapes I had seen into prints.

At graduation, my mentor gave me the first edition of Rockwell Kent’s “N by E” (1930), an account of his voyage to Greenland, and pointing out “the fine illustrations by Mr. Kent.” The engravings, with their stark contrast of the light, became a pivotal source of inspiration for my linoleum cuts. Since then I have been fascinated by the challenge of depicting landscapes in black and white—to distill their essence to two colors that, in the proper combination, give the illusion of many.
Nevertheless, in my woodcuts, I use multiple colors to try to capture the fine nuances of light and the subtle shades created by features we find in the Arctic.

Lately, I started working on woodcuts that are inspired by my home village in Northern Germany.

I hope my prints convey the contentment to the viewer- as the landscapes and skies did to me and that there is light because of darkness.”