Artwork inspired by the connection between the Outer Landscape and one’s Inner Spirit
linking the Outer Landscape with Your Inner Spirit
In working with encaustic wax, I am able to create paintings that suggest luminosity, depth, and dimension. The wax is malleable and somewhat unpredictable in the way it lays down, is reheated, scraped back, and then built upon, revealing layers that you didn't see at first glance.
My encaustic paintings reflect a moment of spiritual pause, or Kairos. These abstracted landscapes are more complex than they might initially seem. Made up of layers of wax, pigment, and images such as charts or maps, etc, these paintings have their own backstory, have their own scars, blemishes, and moments of joy and, in the right light, their former selves will peek through. Their layers remind us how far we have traveled. And through them, we understand how much more is left to be experienced.
Encaustic consists of natural beeswax and dammar resin (crystallized tree sap). Encaustic is a Greek word meaning "to heat or burn in" (enkaustikos). Heat is used throughout the process, from melting the beeswax and varnish on to fusing the layers of wax.