COLLEEN KENNEDY PREMER

MEDIUM

Printmaking

ARTIST STATEMENT

“The art of printmaking is a deeply meditative and therapeutic process for me. Combining color, shapes, repetition, and contrast, my goal is to create unique images with relevance and meaning.”

ARTIST BIO

Colleen has dedicated more than 30 years to the art of printmaking. While her formal education was centered on writing (B.A. – Journalism) and people (M.S. – Clinical Psychology), her passion has always been to make art, and since discovering printmaking in the late 1980’s at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, she has embraced her passion for this process.

Most of Colleen’s prints take an interesting slant on something familiar, and reinvent those images in a new and unusual way. Her icon choices may be either vague or recognizable, yet always subject to personal interpretation by the viewer. Colleen’s choice of colors and her ability to generate texture and depth to her prints give her pieces character, originality, and a sense of timelessness. Colleen believes that the power of observation is her most important tool, and finds that thoughts and ideas that she can’t articulate verbally are much easier for her to express with ink and paper.

Colleen’s work has been featured in art shows across the country, in Printmaking publications, and in private collections. Her work can be found at Sandstone Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, Chemers Gallery in Tustin, CA, and in her home studio in Newport Beach.