Waxing On…about the history of encaustic painting, collagraph printmaking, encaustic restoration, studio practice, the moon and stars, and more.
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.”
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…
Particles and a Twittering Machine: Reflections on a Star Cluster
James Webb Space Telescope and its first alignment images sparked a reflection on Star Cluster, one of the large paintings available in my studio collection. In the creative swirl of the time, I was thinking of particle science and Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine.