Halli moved to Rock Springs Wyoming as a young child. While Halli has always been interested in art even as a young child, she really fell in love with it in 7th grade where she set her sights on making art. She is a 1993 graduate from the University of Wyoming and began teaching art in Rock Springs that same year. Halli has taught all grade levels, but has come full circle and currently teaching at East Junior High School in Rock Springs. Halli's driving message to her students: "I want my students to get excited about art and all of it's vast possibilities! "
Halli says, "I am drawn to the complex, beautiful designs found in nature and consider them to be 'the fingerprint of God'. I am inspired and enthused everyday by the Wyoming that I love. And with that, I have had the opportunity and honor to support many local family and community fund raising events over the years with my art.
Halli has shown her work localliy in Rock Springs at the Community Fine Art Center, White Mountain Library, and accepted in the Art of the West Show in Lander Wyoming. We are proud to welcome Halli and her very unique work to West of Center Studio & Gifts group of fine artist and we are sure you'll be seeing alot more of Halli's very unique works of art popping up throughout the west!
The process on the 10" x 10" Untitled piece is a monoprint process. I cannot replicate it so this is a one of a kind image. The monoprint process I use is to roll ink onto a fiberglass plate and pull the ink off with a rag to reveal an image. The stencil work was done by cutting out shapes from a plastic surface and reprinting the areas unblocked by the plastic.
The other two images "State II" and" State II in Blue "of the aspens are etchings. A ground was added to the plate and the images are scratched into it. It is then exposed to acid which etches into the scratched areas. Ink is then rubbed into the lines of the etching and it is run through a press. The blue image is a chinecolle' where a paper is added to the metal plate before it's run through the press. The glue added to the top paper adheres it to the printed paper. I use actual aspen leaves on the metal and run them through the press again to create an embossement of the leaves over the image. Once it has dried, I add color to enhance the images and complete the image process.
