Art and Tour de France

One of my favorite past times is BIKING. I’m no racer like Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France, but I have done several difficult bike tours overseas and love climbing the Colorado mountains. When I’m not riding with others , I sometimes bring my camera and take photos that I might use for imagery in my monoprints. I will shoot photos of the aspen tree bark markings for my Arborglyph monoprint series, or capture interesting textures for backgrounds. I actually have a whole series of images of the cracking asphalt repairs on the roads.

Road repairs can be interesting textures

When you’re biking, you get a birds eye view of the road beneath you and much of my art is about that viewpoint. People have often commented that some of my ‘Arborglyphs’ look like aerial maps or caving/spelunking maps. Its amazing what inspires us artists!

Reminiscent of a spelunking map?