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Tilbur Studio

Wilbur, studio companion
Wilbur, studio companion

The Artist

I was born between worlds, and I've spent my life in that in-between space. Having a home everywhere and nowhere at once — it shapes everything I make.

I work in layered monoprint, building each piece from my own travel photography. I create layers using multiple gel plate pulls, accumulating textures, color, botanical ghost prints, and chance. The photographic image is pulled last, transferred with acrylic ink. My art is about finding the beauty within an imperfect process.

I work in fragments — a photograph, a leaf, a trace of color. Layered together, they become monoprints that carry memory in texture and tone. Each piece is unique, like the way two people remember the same moment differently. Some arrive soft and fleeting, others bold and lasting.

Beyond the studio, I'm a confirmed leaf thief, a traveler, and a maker — always chasing the next texture that will turn into artwork.

Philosophy

Themes & Process

Places Remembered

Places Remembered exists because fragments of memory are all any of us carry from the places that shape us. For me, that feeling runs deeper than travel. Each piece is built from my own photographs — echoes of places that stay with me. The transfer process blurs and softens, the way memory itself does. What remains is not documentation but impression.

Botanicals

The Botanicals series begins with the physical — leaves pressed into paint, pulled across paper, leaving behind their texture and form. Where Places Remembered is about distance and memory, Botanicals is about the immediate and the tactile. The plants are gathered, used, and transformed. Each print is a record of contact between a living thing and the surface it left its mark on.

Explore the Collections

Discover the contrasting worlds of my current work.