JD The Printmaker

After experimenting with printmaking techniques during COVID-19 in Boston with some simple supplies from Michaels, I found that I absolutely loved the entire artform from beginning to end.
What really sparked the fire of wanting to pursue this as more than a hobby was was visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, a few years later, and discovering the woodblock prints of Canadian artist Edwin Holgate. More information on that exhibition can be found here (external link to the MFA website).

With only a membership to the MFA, gifted to me on my birthday years later, and no real training or skill yet in the r>craft, I returned to the MFA over and over, just to study his prints. I became obsessed, as I always do with most things.

I worked hard to hone my skills, and eventually went into business in January of 2025 with an Etsy shop selling my first run of prints based on the drawing in the margins of Illuminated Manuscripts from medieval books. Eventually, I picked up my life and moved to North-East Tennessee, eventually putting the Etsy shop on a permenant hiatus to focus on local craft fairs across SC, TN, and VA, and expanding my artistic practice to include woodcarving, textile work, custom bags and clothing, mending and battle-jacket fabric patches, and all manner of other crazy little pieces that I wanted to work on.

My inspiration varies from month to month, and sometimes hour by hour, and sometimes I need to take long breaks between projects to meet myself where I am at.
The most important things to me, as an artist, and as a human being, is to always be creating something, whatever it is, in any form, as long as I am creating.

Be it coding, music, prints, painting, sewing, poetry, or literally anything at all, as long as we are creating, as human beings, we are doing our duty to this life as creations ourselves.