Medium - Encaustic on panel

“I mainly work in encaustic and mixed media. I’m interested in the interplay between wax and collage – using tools to create marks, using fire to fuse, layering on bits of paper, using charcoal or oil sticks to draw, and making more marks.   Melting encaustic medium creates distortion, loss, and imperfection. I find this reassuring. Scraping away the layers reveals what’s underneath and building back on top of what once was. Altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form, the finished paintings are palimpsests of my own successive creations. The translucent aspect of the encaustic medium acts as a window into layers of what the viewer can see and allows me to reveal what I want to say through my art. I am inspired by the beauty of the natural world, the complexity of my inner world, and the mystery of the spiritual world.“