"You doodle when you're young, really not knowing what your destinhy is. It is all just a fantasy, a dream, your imagination but it's yours."

Mark Dube 1-07



I knew I was an artist when I was young, because of my imagination I was trying to draw portraits at eleven, twelve and thirteen. I was born September 30 , 1952 in New London, Connecticut to a Navy family that lived many different places. We moved to California in 1965. It was another new world to me. I attended junior and senior high in San Diego and then joined the Air Force to keep from being drafted into the Army. During that time, I found my imagination could help me thru many things in life that are a drag.



I graduated from Southwestern Jr. College in San Diego with an A.A. I heard about the outstanding art department at Humboldt State University and transferred there in 1975. I graduated in 1980 with a B.A. in Visual Arts, specializing in printmaking, and a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. I taught art for one year at the Horizon Arts Outreach Program and taught for one year in The Humboldt County Juvenile Hall. The next year I began woodworking at the North Pacific Joinery.



After graduating from Humboldt State University, I was informed that I could no longer use their art studios. Together with two other printmakers who had just received their MA's from Humboldt State, and a few other artists, the Ink People art association was started and we purchased a $7,000 lithography press. The first few years, we had to flag down cars to get people to come in and see our art. Today there are over 500 members, with a waiting list to show art.



The dream of living simply in the mountains, while being creative and raising a family drew me to Honeydew, overlooking the King Mountain Range on the Lost Coast of California. I continued to paint at home and went into the Ink People Studio to do print making. I built the home where my two youngest were born. During this time, I had two art shows at the Ink People Gallery. I would talk to people about my art while I carried my infant in a backpack.



My art is definitely founded in nature with the abstractness of its eternal beauty and constant ability to change with its environment and circumstances. No matter what medium I seem to work with, my pieces are influenced by my surroundings, and life and all that is part of me. I like my work to trigger the viewer's imagination, because it creates an inner action between the views; me, you, everyone. Drawing, water colors, etchings, lithography, sculpting in different mediums are my favorites, but like Dadaism, many things can be art. It is all part of the imagination and creativity.