Statement

1. Painting gives us another plane for ideas and thoughts to exist on.
2. Painting entices me to turn poetry and story into brush stroke and image.
3. Painting is a key into what we may not remember, but know to be true.
4. Paintings are silent family members with personality, soul and wit.
5. Paintings are layers of possibilities.
6. Painting challenges me to communicate the past and the future into today.
7. Painting is an excavation of evidence proving we were here.

I paint with encaustic paint, layers of hot beeswax, pigment and resin- applied in a liquid state, and fused together with heat. The process is repeated over again, amidst layers of organic matter, collage elements and other stuff.

The encaustic painting process is challenging and unpredictable. The alchemy of the process compels me more than any other medium I've worked with; taking hardened blocks of wax and melting them to the point of fluid paint- heating, painting, and forming it into my work.

It is an additive process as well as a subtractive one, scraping and revealing hidden layers. It seems the perfect medium for my research into interior landscapes of reminiscences, laughter and possibilities.