Throughout his life Jack has been preoccupied with the environment, both natural and man-made. As a very young boy growing up in a small country town he spent much of his free time in the woods creating shelters by enhancing existing hollow spaces under shrubbery, weaving in extra branches and twigs—not unlike the way birds and the other denizens creating their homes.

Years later during his architectural career he became more and more concerned with, and disillusioned by, all the generic boxes that were being erected around the planet, obliterating the great architecture of the past. Admittedly there are some modern "gems" but they are generally the exception to this trend. And so "old world" architecture becomes increasingly precious to him as time passes, and provides his work as a printmaker with a focus and a theme.

After many years of presenting architectural renderings in graphite and in watercolor, he is now enjoying this relatively new means of expression through the intaglio medium combining line and aquatint.

He prints mostly with sepia ink and he finds it to be sympathetic with his subject and his mood.

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