Handmade Paper > Paper Paintings

I hope that this image captures some of the exuberance of starting a day here in the mountains of New Hampshire.

I sprayed pigmented cotton pulp through a stencil onto a base sheet of kozo paper to form the image in this artwork.

Papermaker Andrea Petersen taught me this paper stenciling technique in a 2008 workshop at Paper & Book Intensive, an annual "working sabbatical" for book artists, conservationists, and papermakers.

The finished piece is mounted on a white cotton rag mat of archival quality.