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Reflections in Collage: Works by Diane Miller
Saturday, June 22 to Sunday, September 7
Diane Miller's unique collages are inspired by the rocks, trees, mists, clouds, and rain of the North Temperate Zone, and by Sung Dynasty ink paintings and Japanese landscape screens. At a time when the natural environment is threatened as never before by industrialization and pollution, she offers a vision of unpolluted nature full of wild movement and the textures of the earth.
Miller's collages combine printmaking and papermaking. She prints her images of tree branches and other forms on very thin Japanese papers, using such techniques as etching, monotype, collagraph, and silicone intaglio. She then collages fragments of her prints, often in many layers, over her own handmade paper. This technique, which she invented, allows for a buildup of textures and glimpses of underlying images beneath irregular surfaces. Like the artists of the Sung Dynasty, she tries to create a feeling of infinite space, calm, order, and mystery beneath the turbulent changes of light and the seasons.