Waxing On…about the history of encaustic painting, collagraph printmaking, encaustic restoration, studio practice, the moon and stars, and more.

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Art Transits: From Past to Present

“The unifying theme in this body of work quite literally is transitions. I am excited to see how being in a new place that offers a constant view of the horizon combined with significant movement of constellations will inform the work. This series of 20 pieces, each 14” x 11”, represents both past and present, and in hindsight, they represent the 20 years of creating in my previous studio.”

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Waxing On: My Portland Residency

Last month, thanks to grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation, I stepped outside my home studio and partnered up once again with a old friend, Jane Pagliarulo at Atelier Meridian. I had always wanted to do large prints of a specific image from particle physics…

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