Artist Statement

"With 28 years’ full-time experience behind me, I believe that I possess the fluency and vision to revitalize the medium of low relief with fresh vigor.

Rather than the static documentation of objects that relief is often relegated to, I seek to infuse my work with the visually kinetic energy of living things. Each piece that I undertake stands as an invitation into nature's wonderment and the offering of a second chance to embrace that which otherwise may have been overlooked.

To be an artist, is to me, to live within the world as an active and humble learner - always fascinated, ever striving, often failing and dynamically compelled - seeking to see into the unique "thingness" of each of my subjects - and further, attempting to find a way to value and make manifest the thrumming gossamer causal threads that join us all together as a living world.” JDW