My first monotypes were made in 2006 with professor Nancy Macko at Scripps College. I loved the way this type of printmaking used painterly methods and immediate boldness. I played with thickness of ink in veils of color, spritzes and streaks in application, and vein-like threads of ink that pulsed through the press. Seven years later when I moved to Marin County, I met a fellow artist who had the same printmaking mentor, and she had just opened Ink Paper Plate in Point Reyes Station. In that studio I have been able to create a few small bodies of work.