Ongoing series of sculptural paintings conveying a mystical relationship with spirit-beings. All are encaustic with mixed media.
My ongoing exploration of nature, mysticism, science and spirituality informs the core of my art practice. I work with various organic materials and mixed media to create expressive sculptural works that speak to the cycles of life, memory, and the passage of time. The physicality of my chosen materials often guides my creative process, and the resulting sculptures embody my exploratory experiences as an artist. I often work with wax for its ethereal and translucent qualities, incorporating the depth of wax as an element of mystery that evokes serenity and dreamlike states of repose.
2024
Encaustic mixed media
70”x14”x3”
2024
Encaustic, found objects
52x 13x 4”
2024
encaustic mixed media
62x 1 8 x 3.5”
2024
encaustic mixed media
79× 15× 3”
2024
encaustic mixed media
79”x 15”x 3”
2024
encaustic, mixed media
48 x 18× 2”
2024
encaustic mixed media
50× 22× 5”
2024
encaustic, mixed media
46× 20× 3.5”
Untitled (bells)
2024
31”x 6”x 2”
2024
encaustic mixed media
35x 21x 2”
2024
mixed media
30× 6× 2”
2024
encaustic mixed media
25 x 6 x 2”
2024
encaustic mixed media
33× 16× 2”
My ongoing series of assemblage sculptures, Marking Time, speaks to the cycles of life, memory and the passage of time. By combining ordinary objects so the viewer sees them in new ways, I use juxtaposition to alter meanings in surprising and provocative ways.
mixed media, 28"x 22"x 7”, 2022
2021, mixed media
26”x 16”x 6”
2021
21”x 17”x 6”
mixed media
2022
19”x 17”x 5”
mixed media
2021
6.5”x 15”x 2.5”
mixed media
2022
18”x 8”x 3.5”
mixed media
2021
27”x 15”x 6”
mixed media
24”x 9”x 8”
mixed media
2021
20”x 10”x 3.5”
mixed media
2022
38”x 18”x 9”
mixed media
One of my favorite late summer crops from the garden is peaches. Usually lots and lots of peaches ripen at the same time. Eating, cookng, canning and freezing them involves sending all those pits to the compost where they ultimately end up back in the garden beds. I come across them again while turning, raking, planting, weeding, mulching or even harvesting other crops. Each find is always a sweet reminder of summer’s harvest, of their journey from tree back to the soil. Wondering how many seasons each one has endured in the elements I started collecting them in my tool belt pouch. Here , in Many Moons, they share their memories of sunshine, rain, tumult and the gardener’s delight.
2022
21”x 20”x 2.5”
mixed media
2022
51”x 21”x 8”
mixed media
2023
24”x 18”x 3.5”
mixed media
2023
15”x 6”X 5”
mixed media
2022
9”x 9”x2”
mixed media
2022
9”x 9”x 2”
mixed media
2022
22”x 15”x 6”
mixed media
2023
17”x 15”x 7”
mixed media
2022
19”x 11”x 3”
mixed media
2022
18”x 16”x 6”
mixed media
2022
19”x 9”x 2”
mixed media
2023
24”x 18” x1.5”
mixed media
2023
35”x 12”x 2.5”
mixed media
2021
18”x 12”x 1.5”
mixed media
2022
9”x 15.5”x 2”
mixed media
2023
9.5”x 12”x 3”
mixed media
2023
26”x 15”x 6”
Mixed media
2021
24”x 18”x 1.5”
mixed media
2023
23”x 14”x 3”
mixed media
2022
15”x 8”x 4”
mixed media
2020
28”x 16”x 9”
mixed media
2021
6”x 18”x 3”
mixed media
As an artist, I am interested in creating works that are evocative rather than descriptive. My interest is in exploring the expressive potential of various media and the physicality of materials. This series of encaustic paintings evokes raindrop’s rippling across the water’s surface. My intent was to capture a sense-memory from childhood in elemental ways using the transparency, opacity and translucence inherent in encaustic painting. As a child growing up beside a harbor, I would spend countless hours wading in the shallows hunting minnows, mesmerized by the shifting current, the sparkling light and shadows undulating below the reflections on the surface. These paintings were developed through numerous translucent layers of pigment suspended in beeswax, allowing light to permeate and glow from within.
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
16x 32”
Features: cradled wood panels, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
12x 24”
Features: cradled wood panels, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
9x12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
Winter Mix 2
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
9x12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, mono prints, ink, oil
9x12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, mono prints, ink, oil
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, mono prints, ink, oil, shellac
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, mono prints, ink, oil
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, mono prints, ink, shellac, oil
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
9x 12”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
12x 16”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil, shellac
12x 16”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, shellac, oil
20x 20”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2024
encaustic, ink, shellac, oil
24x 24”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2024
encaustic, ink, shellac, oil
20x 20”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2024
encaustic, ink, shellac, oil
24x 24”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
2023
encaustic, ink, oil
12x 16”
Features: cradled wood panel, wired for hanging, signed on back
Entering the quiet spaces of woodlands, as the novelist John Fowles once put it, “is almost like leaving land to go into water, another medium, another dimension.”
These paintings were inspired by my lifelong fascination with trees and the way they frame our world in different light and through different seasons. The genesis for these paintings was the clearing of brush at the edge of the woods around my home, opening new and inviting views into and through the woods.
The paintings are made in the hot wax process, normally referred to as encaustic. I work with encaustic paint, which is beeswax and tree resin with pigments, on wood panels using brushes, torches, knives, and scraping tools. I love the sense of the unexpected, the warm fragrance, and the anticipation evoked by moving molten wax. The alternate carving through and building up layers of wax are similar to the additive and subtractive processes of working with clay, which has long been my favored medium.
Inspiration often comes just from working with materials and process. For me, it is the thrill of exploring, pushing the materials, and discovery that keeps me returning to the studio.
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8"
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8" SOLD
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8"
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x12" SOLD
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8"
encaustic on wood panel, 6"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 6"x18"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x24" SOLD
encaustic on wood panel, 6"x12" SOLD
encaustic on wood panel, 6"x12"
encaustic on wood; 5.5"x16" SOLD
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x18"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x18"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panel, 10"x10"
encaustic on wood panels, 9"x15"
encaustic on wood panel, 18"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x18"
encaustic on masonite, 9"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x12" SOLD
Abstracted Landscape paintings in oil or encaustic.
As an inquiry into our complex relationships to place/space/time my work has grown increasingly abstract.
Ultimately, I am interested in creating works that are evocative rather than descriptive. My interest is in experimentation, texture and the physicality of materials. I seek to instill a sense of quietude, a deep sense of place and connection to landscape. These themes have emerged in my work in different ways at different times in different media. My intention is to capture an atmospheric quality of ease, serenity and spaciousness. Inspiration often comes just from pushing the materials and process.
Both personal and universal, these paintings are from a series of formal compositions of quiet horizontal abstraction. The interaction and interdependence between land/sky/sea is inherently calming. This format has recurred in my work as an exploration of memory, perception of place and the passage of time. My process has been solely focused in an exploration of the depth and resonance of color, texture and the physicality of paint layers using both additive and subtractive techniques. Rich surfaces emerge through scratching, scraping, blending, printing on and compressing wet paint layers.
oil & cold wax on wood panel, 12"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 12"x12" SOLD
encaustic on wood panel, 18"x12"
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8"
encaustic on wood panel, 8"x8"
encaustic on wood panel, 16"x16" SOLD
encaustic, watercolor, ink; 8"x8" SOLD
encaustic and watercolor on wood panel; 8"x8" SOLD
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7" SOLD
oil & cold wax on paper, 7"x5"
oil & cold wax on media board, 6"x8"
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7" SOLD
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7"
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7"
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7"
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7"
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7"
oil & cold wax on paper, 5"x7"
encaustic & silver leaf on masonite, 9"x12"
encaustic & silver leaf on masonite, 9"x12"
encaustic, oil, graphite & silver leaf on wood panel, 36"x24"
Encaustic, ink, graphite, found objects on wood panel, 6”x6”
Encaustic, ink, graphite, found objects on wood panel, 6"x6"
Encaustic, found objects on wood panel, 6”x6”
encaustic, seed pods, graphite & thread on wood panel, 6”x6”
Encaustic, ink, pastel, porcelain, found object on wood panel, 6”x6”
encaustic, graphite, pastel, found objects on wood panel, 6”x6” SOLD
encaustic, seed pods, porcelain & graphite on wood panel; 6”x6”
Encaustic, ink, pastel, found object on wood panel, 6”x6”
encaustic with found objects on wood panel, 6"x6" SOLD
encaustic, ink, graphite, found objects on wood panel; 6"x6"
encaustic, seed pods, porcelaine, graphite; 6"x6"
encaustic, seed pods, graphite and thread on wood panel; 6"x6" SOLD
encaustic, ink, pastel, found objects on wood panel; 6"x6" SOLD
encaustic, ink, pastel, found object on wood panel; 6"x6" SOLD
encaustic, ink, graphite, found objects on wood panel; 6"x6" SOLD
encaustic, ink, graphite, found objects on wood panel; 6"x6" SOLD
encaustic, graphite and found objects on wood panel, 6"x6"
encaustic, ink, pastel, found objects on wood panel; 6"x6" SOLD
Encaustic, found object, ink, oil on wood panel; 6”x6”
encaustic, found object, ink, pastel on wood panel, 8x8"
encaustic, paper, oil pastel, gold leaf on wood panel; 9"x12" SOLD
encaustic, paper, tea bags, seed pods, coffee grounds, 12"x18"
encaustic and found objects on wood panel; 9"x12" SOLD
sagger and pit fired earthenware
Courthouse Gallery, LAKE GEORGE ARTS PROJECT, 2018
See COMMISSIONS for more information & photos in construction.
Sang Burner Commissioned by the Rigpa Center for Compassion and Wisdom, Berne, NY
Completed Sang Burner in use.
the beginning
rebar runs from deep in the ground up through the walls to the top creating stability through our winter ground heaving.
2014-2018
SOLD
SOLD
SOLD
