From the Portfolio: Here is a sampling of my recent studio work in encaustic
Encaustic is a medium ideal for the layered approach I take to painting. Abstract ideas become metaphors in the layered landscapes of the Allegheny mountains where I live and beyond into the many varied regions of this wide wild country.
Recently driven by the theme "Searching for Beauty in a Broken World," these paintings are abstract or impressionistic landscapes and townscapes that find the light in the cracks of brokenness and also highlight those places of respite needed for renewal.
I have worked in a variety of media, with a focus on a few techniques that have played pivotal roles in the history of art including encaustic, used by ancient Egyptians and Minoans, egg tempera, primarily used in Byzantine and Gothic era painters in Europe; woodcut prints, perfected by Japanese artists in the U-kiyo e tradition; and collage or mixed media which transformed the working process of many modern artists. My handling of these techniques tends to be a looser interpretation.
Recently driven by the theme "Searching for Beauty in a Broken World," these paintings are abstract or impressionistic landscapes and townscapes that find the light in the cracks of brokenness and also highlight those places of respite needed for renewal.
I have worked in a variety of media, with a focus on a few techniques that have played pivotal roles in the history of art including encaustic, used by ancient Egyptians and Minoans, egg tempera, primarily used in Byzantine and Gothic era painters in Europe; woodcut prints, perfected by Japanese artists in the U-kiyo e tradition; and collage or mixed media which transformed the working process of many modern artists. My handling of these techniques tends to be a looser interpretation.
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making of something after it is found.” -- James Russell Lowell, American poet, critic
