I live in a rare and beautiful place at the end of a peninsula. The estuary forms the western boundary, and the ocean stretches out to the east. Everyday I see unusual birds and animals living in this pocket of preserved wildlife habitat. As the seasons pass, I notice a species for the first time,

a marsh hawk, Cooper's hawk, glossy ibis, snow goose, fisher or mink.

I observe the animals swimming, flying, fishing, hunting, and nesting.  In late summer, I camp in the solitude of the north woods wilderness. The lake and stream has its own unique selection of species, salmon, trout, moose, otters, and eagles.  I love to sit on a rock in the stream and paint. 

Each winter, I return to the studio to work on large-scale prints inspired by images that I record from nature throughout the year.  To develop my monotypes, I create a group of mylar shapes which I ink, print, and re-ink; building up color layers and altering spatial relationships. A series of related work evolves from the printed collection of cut out shapes. What I enjoy most about this process is that I am able to pursue multiple variations of my original idea. The final prints are multiple and varied, brilliantly frontal, or receding in space like the animals themselves, a memory, mysterious, and wild by nature.

Susan Amons, 2006