Melanie Dorson

Starting in July of 2011, I began creating a black-and-white drawing within a circle (or mandala) with pen-and-ink every day as a calming, meditative process. I begin most of these mandalas with a scribble and search for an image within the scribble that I develop into a completed drawing. My most recent prints are aquatints based on my daily pen-and-ink mandala drawings. These images are influenced by my love of illustrated children’s literature and often work in combination to form dreamlike narrative sequences.