AQUATIC PLANTS, TROUT LAKE STATION, WISCONSIN

In 2021, I spent the bulk of my first artist-in-residence, at Trout Lake Station (Drawing Water) scouting as much of the area that I could and photographing the plants, fungi and insects. I returned to my room to distill the shapes of plants, the light reflected off the water, mosses seen through a magnifying lens, and lichens into watercolor patterns on cold press paper. I am interested in creating compositions by rearranging shapes from the landscape with colors found in nature. It is this rearrangement that engages me as an artist. I returned to Trout Lake Station in 2022 with my husband, Andrew Hipp. We kayaked many of the lakes near the station, including Big Muskellunge, Starrett, Sparkling, and Allequash to study aquatic plants in the field and through microscopes. I look forward to returning to this beautiful part of Wisconsin and continuing this series.