With Strata, I examine surface and substrait. Not unlike the upheavals of land in the west. Where land masses collide and lift to expose even more beauty beneath the surface and where the bones of "the old ones" harden and nourish the earth with history and beauty.
After many careers: artist, graphic designer, mother, and sales; I've resumed my first love art. Now, retired, I still have the creative urge. I spend half the year in Lake Geneva, WI and half in Tucson, AZ. Both naturally beautiful areas inspire the organic forms, which are found in my work. Encaustic is a medium I can carve, inscribe, build up and color. Its flexibility is both earthy and otherworldly like both locations in which I live. It allows me to connect the geology: the erosions, water and plant life into a sculptural and collage based wax pieces. It is thrilling to again to be creating and exhibiting, to feel joy in my ability and the continuum of my life's consistent effort: art.