Chasing After the Wind

Artist

Tracy Skinner

Artist bio

After graduating with a BA in Photography and Fine Art from California State University, Long Beach, I worked in corporate theater for many years. I provided visual design for major corporations such as NBC, Piper Aircraft, Ford Motor Corporation, Harley Davidson, and Women in Film just to name a few. At the age of 40,I retired from the corporate world to raise a family with my husband. Since 2013 I have focused on the process of printmaking and found it to be the perfect medium that allows me to fuse images and/or photography with a hands on approach to the final creation: the print. Much of my work is inspired by my faith in God, my inner struggle to find God’s truth, and the complexity of human nature to the simplicity of nature around us. My work is sometimes whimsical, sometimes contemplative and sometimes ambiguous. I have been a volunteer at the Irvine Fine Arts Center's Open Studio for printmaking since 2014. I am a member of the Fallbrook Artist Guild, Fallbrook Art Association , and CIVA.

Visual Arts 2026 Contest

Title

Chasing After the Wind

Medium/Genre

Other

Artist Statement

I am a printmaker , working from my own studio on a Little John Printing Press, I use a variety of printing techniques from solarplates etchings to monotypes and collagraphs.

How it fits into contest

Chasing after the wind is a phrase used often in the book of Ecclesiastics. This print depicts for me an image of a childlike girl sitting in the wind, who like many are trying to find the meaning of life in all the wrong places. That meaning becomes elusive, as the wind . She sits awkwardly, with childlike wonderment, holding a fish, a symbol of humanity as Christ calls us to be fishermen of men. How are we to be fishermen of men if we do not understand our own true purpose? The conclusion of the book leads us to understand that a life lived for God is the only meaningful and purpose driven life.