JUST HAVE FUN

'JUST HAVE FUN' derived from an attempt to create a piece of encaustic that defied gravity. I admonished myself to not plan so much to have FUN. Using the materials from the failed piece, it became something else and successful.

Tree Pod

Using an unusual gourd, I added the encaustic medium and paint. The piece is a tabletop work illustrating the gourd as encapsulating new life.

SPILLWAY

RED DOT

“Red Dot” encourages the viewer to look within the irregular surface folds playfully. To move the eye over the surface, to look close or to stand back. Are the “dots” on the surface or below?

PERFORATIONS I

PERFORATIONS II

With the “Perforations” series I’ve played with the same pattern. I encourage the viewer to explore what you see & what you think you see as though sometimes out of the corner of your eye-- beneath mist--underneath. The images recede and come forward. They encourage you to look beyond the surface, the red tones, ethereal- jewel-like, the earth tones provoke with more under their hide-like exteriors.