ARTIST STATEMENT My Artwork bridges the known with the unseen & elusive narrations of visual & metaphysical multiplicities. Each aspect of creation is a curation, the result almost always arrived at through exploration, the goal being something worthy for the viewer to dissolve into.
Encaustic Works Untethered to time in lengthy immersion, a large body of Encaustic works were created from 2004 to 2025. Hundreds of wood panels infused with colors & rhythms of hot wax, liquified, cooled, brushed, taped, carved.. From five inches square to eight foot solitary pieces to amorphic installations to fill the largest walls. Conjured images both singular and in groupings that often preceded or reflected the zeitgeist at hand. Social, Environmental, Political, Spiritual elements seeped through layers like coalescing thoughts.. a visual thermostat on world affairs in the later 20th Century. Large scale and more unified pieces started \ in 2015 to illustrate the consequences of the moments at hand. I used Scenic Painting Techniques with Encaustic Paint. This entailed throwing hot wax across cold air to bond before solidifying; liquifying whole or partial areas of a panel- rolling direction with gravity, merging materials & colors like lava running along the oceans bottom.
The first of the largest scale series began in the spring of 2019 and is titled ‘World Afire’- representative simply of the actual and impending global environmental disasters. While finishing this one up towards summers end, I did a rare quick sketch of multiple lines and junctures, an interconnected loop, a shifting landscape of scales, distinct channels that would inevitably collide through one another.
Months later as these images formed into wax; the shifting seas of aqua space purples, I realized I had been painting the Pandemic before there was one. The global reality was unfolding as the image was in development. 'Slipstream' was technically finished early 2020.
The next piece, 'Red Letters', became and stayed dark. What I'd thought would be a light painting of white with an inclusion of all color became the color of flames dissipating across the endless black night. Letters, symbols and meaning burning themselves out in futility, extinguished in resignation.
It was little surprise the 4th piece in this series encapsulated all preceding elements..in conflict, in polarities, in search of domination and resolution. The simple title of 'Fracture' so definitive for this period.