Artist Statement

Anne Beidler’s mixed-media, layered prints and drawings explore the evolving self, found in the private spaces of thought, body, and memory.  She asks how we can maintain connections to our home-place, to our kindred, and to the earth.  Her work has often referenced elements of Buddhist poetry, as she continues to discover links between new contemplative spaces and re-considered memories.  Her recent works include a series of intimate, hand-pulled prints that examine her interactions with the forest on her daily walks.  Media include woodcut printing, photopolymer prints, monoprints, collage and stitching.  She employs her own photographs, drawings and occasional found images, in an overlay of printmaking methods.