My encaustic painting The Conflation of Mars will be in the Spectrum 2012 show at the Carriage Barn Arts Center, from May 23rd through the …
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The Conflation of Mars in the Spectrum 2012 Show
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Reflecting, a work in progress
This is what I have been up to for the last few months in the studio. Modeling is nearly complete and I have started talking …
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Caring for an encaustic work of art.
It seems like art made of wax would be very vulnerable to heat, but it takes a lot more than a warm room to melt …
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Triggering the Creation Stories thinking – Aldrich Museum presentation
I made a presentation of my work, mostly the Creation Stories project, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT last Saturday (1/15/2010). There …
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What are encaustics?
Encaustic painting (hot wax painting) is one of the oldest known painting techniques. The simplest hot wax painting is a combination of beeswax and pigment, …
Sparks in Dark Places
Here are a few works that explore an inversion of the values that had been dominant in my previous works. This also finds me thinking …
Imaginary Places
This work has taken a turn toward landscape, or is it sea or space, still in a mythic time and place. I’ve started shaping the …
The Fortunes
Point-of-view is everything. Three views of an assemblage (now destroyed) created from the detritus of my painting process. The photos reveal what was not planned …
Creation Stories
What defines this series for me is that the viewer is given an open ended image rich with possible interpretations, and more than a few …
Encaustic & Pastel Together
The luscious wax surface doesn’t really want the dusty and dry pastel to sully it. But with the encouragement of just a little heat and …
Pastel Drawings
This collection of pastel drawings are among the most intimate works I’ve done. Done in a very introspective way, channeling my emotional state in the …
Hiding, Revealing
These paintings are created by layering and scraping back the encaustic medium and paints. I often start with gestural mark making. These marks get hidden, …
Dancing Shaman
A fragile little assemblage of pigmented wax. Balance and movement led to something that seems like a figure - although far from human anatomy.