Ribbons & Tatters II

Tatterd gaily printed ribbon- like encaustic forms mounted on board 

Ribbons & Tatters

. By floating the forms from the background, they become more fragile and more like the natural way things disintegrate--allowing external skins to become forms in their own right with color, depth and layers

From the Woods

LOOSELY BOUND

MESSENGER

FRAGMENT

This collage uses handmade paper, incised marks and small hematite beads.

REBUTTAL

VEILED RESPONSE

A collage using papers and wax, a change from the 3D pieces. The work is less intense from a constructing point of view, but the subject title is more whimsical.

BREEZES III

Breezes I through V

Are the objects laundry, curtains blown in a window or merely windblown scrap? The contorted shapes are full of motion and conflict, unanchored. What propels them?

BREEZES II (RT VIEW)

BREEZES II

BREEZES

ALASKAN QUARTET

Alaska--mammoth and majestic mountains, unlimited clear water, dense gnarly forests, ancient glaciers.

This is a place of power and serenity, fragility and eternity. Dichotomy is everywhere. There is a silence so intense minus the ambient noises of cities and suburbs and yet raucous with the sounds of the earth trembling with unseen chasms, the glaciers shuddering, cracking and breaking; water gushing, crashing and burbling; forests alive with wind and animal sounds.

I’ve illustrated these contrasts with durable substrates, flexible encaustic medium and fragile hand made papers also positioning color against the lack of it and dark against light like the land which huddles in the dark of winter and explodes with light in summer.

DREAM KEEPERS

Fragile, ethereal vessels to try to hold the most unique part of ourself.

STRATA

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.

BENEATH THE SURFACE

My exploration consists of pushing my medium, encaustic, to its limitations into 3 dimensional work. By freeing the medium from the surface, it becomes more fragile and more like the natural way things disintegrate--losing external skins to expose their structures.
The white fabric shapes support and soar creating tension and evoking the skeletal remains of a plant or animal while the delicate paper is reminiscent of fibrous membranes and more static.
In recent pieces I have been interested in using my art to encourage the viewer to look into, around, under and through. Without the use of color, I feel I’ve been more successful with this piece in exploring the capabilities of the material and the object of looking beyond what would normally be the surface.

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.