Encaustics

I have been working with encaustics for years juxtaposing it with other mediums. In my sculptural work, cast handmade paper that I make myself is fused with copper or aluminum sheet metal. It is worked into with encaustic.

The encaustic painted wood panels are an intense personal dialogue between process and image. I draw with wire that is metaphorically stitched into the panel containing the layered forms. These are somewhat biographical and reminiscent of childhood memories of my seamstress mother stitching together garments. Most of all they are sculptural landscapes that explore the world of essential natural forms that exist within all things big and small.

The first comprehensive contemporary exhibition of encaustic art in the United States, Waxing Poetic; encaustic Art in America” at the Montclair Museum of Art included my work. The exhibition traveled to the Knoxville Museum of Art. My work appears in the book “The Art of Encaustic Painting” by Joanne Mattera.

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