Artist
exploring, creating, mining, making, nurturing art
exploring, creating, mining, making, nurturing art
Work in Cold Wax and Oil Stick
The Lunar Series, 2015: Graphite, cold wax and oil stick on cradled Encaustibord. Three panels, each 10" x 10"
Mistakes
This work in eight parts was exhibited in Nashville, TN, for the Special Interest Group's show. Eight parts, created together using graphite, cold wax and oil stick, were worked and reworked by moving "mistakes" from one panel to another.
How do we, as artists, see our mistakes as masterpieces?
Work in Encaustic and Mixed-Media
Flight of the Honeybee, 2015: This piece is a mixed-media encaustic work, utilizing watercolor and graphite with encaustic wax. It is a diptych, on two panels, both 16" x 16".
Work in Mixed-Media
Just My Cup of Tea,
Encaustic and mixed media on wire on plaster, 2014
My latest project evolved from my family's journey from Scotland, to northern England, to London, overseas to America, down to Mexico, back over to the continent in France, with memories told through stories, places remembered through pictures and experiences lived and relived. This idea of the mapping of place, how our families' trajectories overlap our own, and how their experiences nourish our personal histories, create a rich and layered experience we call our own. Finally, the tea cozy, that funny apparatus that is meant to keep tea warm. Mine is see-through on purpose, with the trajectories of family members stitched through it, as a means of demonstrating the overlay of experience. I used tulle, for the transparent effect, which also proved difficult, as I envisioned it more like a transparency with no seams.
Encaustic and mixed media on wire on plaster, 2014
My latest project evolved from my family's journey from Scotland, to northern England, to London, overseas to America, down to Mexico, back over to the continent in France, with memories told through stories, places remembered through pictures and experiences lived and relived. This idea of the mapping of place, how our families' trajectories overlap our own, and how their experiences nourish our personal histories, create a rich and layered experience we call our own. Finally, the tea cozy, that funny apparatus that is meant to keep tea warm. Mine is see-through on purpose, with the trajectories of family members stitched through it, as a means of demonstrating the overlay of experience. I used tulle, for the transparent effect, which also proved difficult, as I envisioned it more like a transparency with no seams.
Artist Trading Cards
A Fleeting Juxtaposition, series, mixed-media, 2014
This series explores the global issues of environmental waste, and the speed at which news travels via technology. These sound bites could facilitate greater awareness of the issues, but do they?
Recipes: A Migratory Tale
"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences." ~Brian Eno
"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences." ~Brian Eno
Work in Encaustic