Each piece starts with a hand-pulled print, the basis of which is an etched plate for the press. The old technique of etching on zinc plates and the different chemical steps used to create the plate was very harmful. New techniques - solar plates that use light and water to cure - are now in use.

Once there is a plate, color might be applied directly to it or poured onto a glass table and then blended with rollers onto the plate after which she employs the large hand-pulled printing press sitting in the center of her studio. Layered on top of the print will be digital artwork, somewhat translucent, printed on handmade Japanese paper or vellum.

In any one piece, she incorporates a mélange of images from her travels. A Croatian dove is mixed with the designs of tiles from Seville, grass from Florida and, perhaps, a flower from her back yard. The translucency and layering, along with a leaning toward the abstract, add mystery to each piece.

Bouyoucos has been exhibiting since 1982 - juried shows in and around Rochester, in Manhattan and throughout the New York State, and in Philadelphia, Seattle, Austin, Lima, Peru, and Melbourne, Australia. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections in Rochester and across the country, as well as in Norway and England.