artist statement

Early morning walks draped in thick layers of fog, late night excursions lit by the glow of the city, and memories of the land and seascape from travel and childhood have provided me with the views and vistas that have come to inspire my paintings. Bridges, birds, nets, trees and coastlines appear amid a backdrop of abstract fields. Fields informed by urban landscapes, starry nights, and swooshing waves, constructed out of oil, gouache, paper, pastel, pigment, and decedent layers of encaustic wax. Wax or encaustic painting is an ancient medium I’ve been examining in the context of contemporary painting. I find myself attracted not only to the smell, but texture, transparency and malleability of sun-bleached beeswax. Working primarily intuitively, I approach each piece as a new opportunity, as well as an unconscious manifestation of all of the other works that came before it.

untitled coastline along highway 1
oil, encaustic and collage on panel
24” x 24”