GILHOOLY'S interest is in the process of making objects that have rich, active surfaces, which springs from her background as a printmaker. She often finds herself treating her materials with a similar emphasis on line and surface, satisfying her constant need to draw, carve, etch, engrave, paint, tool, scratch, stitch and print lines.

The artist's primary subjects are organic forms that relate to the contrast between organic forms and mechanical devices. The organic forms are influenced by botanical or scientific diagrams, and then doodled into a more abstracted image, while the mechanical devices are influenced by GILHOOLY'S interest in hardware and fasteners. The individual forms are carefully carved into a wooden panel, evoking the graphic quality of a woodcut or linocut. Color is then applied in transparent layers, sanded and reapplied until the desired effect is attained.

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