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MATERIALS Out of her small studio in Graton, she constructs her art in a variety of mediums and with an array of different materials. She uses hammers, acrylics, garden hoses, Chiclets, paper, gummy worms and human hair to create her art. She uses a mixture of different colors in her drawings and admires such artist as Matisse and Milton Avery for their use of color in their works. Hitchcock typically makes "series" that encompass certain materials or images. With her recent series of paper drawings, entitled, "New Drawings," an image of a dog's head is present among a mixture of buildings and toasters. Other works incorporate photos and found materials. "Self-Portrait With Plastic Horse," created in 1997, was composed of a childhood photo and a broken plastic horse. Hitchcock also makes or sculpts her art, covering shoes in chocolate or making a giant ball from sponge and horsehair. Her work varies in price, with drawings that cost up to $700. She enjoys watching people try to analyze her work, but confesses that most of the time, the images she creates do not hold any symbolic or psychological meaning." 'Self Portrait With Plastic Horse' is just a picture of child and broken horse," says Hitchcock. "People used to say, 'I see the illusion of broken dreams of childhood,' and I would say 'It's just a gray horse.' When people read into my art, it makes me laugh."
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