Ian Paul Roger Nelson creates art images on paper using rubber stamps and ink, each impression individually applied by hand. Ian’s work combines concepts of pattern (choice) with randomly generated elements (chance), oftentimes employing shuffled playing cards or rolled dice to inform color and shape selection. Ian also manipulates basic building blocks into more involved representations of figures and objects, much like how one might arrange the polygon pieces of a tangram puzzle. These works have evolved from layered studies on color and negative space to more intricate ideas using cut-outs like inverted stencils to generate movement and depth.