Cyan Art Studio

Housed within the Art Scene Collective’s studio space in the Forrester Building on Redwood Ave near Downtown Fort Bragg, Cyan Art Studio provides:
– Classes and Workshops in making cyanotype prints
– Cyanotype and full-color photo printing services
– Drop-In Prints on weekends: Bring your friends and family to make beautiful blue prints of photos, plants, stencils, or your favorite vacation photos from your smart phone.

I’m so excited to be part of the great Mendo Coast art scene and downtown Fort Bragg! And excited to be making and teaching Cyanotype printing again after a long hiatus brought on by global economic meltdowns, wildfires and other detour-causing events in my life.

I began my photography career in Boise, Idaho in the late 1990’s, through my desire to reveal the meaning inherent in relationships between people and places. From 2003 to 2005, I built a comprehensive, year-long photojournalism program for 80 students and 10 teachers in 6 Boise-area high schools, funded by the state of Idaho and featured in Photo District News Magazine.

Also during 2003, I assisted editorial/advertising photographer Andy Anderson, where I received my introduction to medium and large format photography. I ended up with a 1930s-era Graflex Super D Graflex 4×5 box camera with rotating back, a vertical “stovepipe” viewer and a collection of century-old brass lenses.

In 2005, I moved to San Francisco, California to pursue my Master of Fine Art degree from Academy of Art University, which I completed in 2008. It was during this time that I continued my Boise-born fascination with “old-world” traditions by beginning an ongoing photographic exploration of San Francisco’s 150-year-old Dolphin Swimming & Boating Club. As part of that exploration, I began working with the cyanotype process, which I used to complete the first phase of that exploration, a 16-image work entitled “Swimming With Ghosts”.

My photographic work has been displayed nationwide in galleries such as the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, The Vermont Photographic Workplace, and Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco. My work has been selected by prestigious professionals such as Mary Ellen Mark, Andy Adams of Flak Photo Magazine and Cig Harvey.

I also spent four months in Tamil Nadu, India, as a guest lecturer in India’s premier private photography college, Light & Life Academy. From 2008-2014, I taught cyanotype, Photoshop, digital printing and other classes in San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Photo Center, one of the oldest and largest community darkrooms in the nation.

Through fate, circumstance and occasionally my own choice, I have ended up on the beautiful and mysterious Mendocino Coast of Northern California. I have a small studio in Fort Bragg where I print cyanotype, offer open studio “Drop-In Print” sessions to tourists and locals, as well as ongoing workshops, full-color printing and art reproduction services.