As a production papermaker, I respond to the world around me in color and texture. At any one time I will have several buckets of colored pulp and mix them in the vat until I have a color that pleases me. Bits of fiber from walks in the woods or along the sea find their way into some of the papers – tufts of cattail, small pieces of lichens or Irish moss seaweed. Never satisfied for long, the vat will metamorphous from one color to the next with all the steps between the two. The result is a rich palette of handmade papers in many different shades.