"I create my encaustic paintings using a slow, labor intensive layering of beeswax and pigments, with graphite and organic materials from the earth itself. I then engrave a pattern moving over the surface, repeating a rhythm found in nature. Graphite and other sediments fill the engraving, are wiped off and then fused into the melting surface as I slowly move a heated lamp over the surface. The interaction of light and heat, sediment and surface, recreates processes seen in nature, the fractal formation. The form disintegrates, changes and forms again. This implies a reordering of experience, a a span of time and ultimate change."
"My encaustic paintings are created out of a deep sense of the oneness of humankind and nature. Nature is my most intimate contact, my reassurance of ongoing life. Through my paintings I seek to bring experiences of beauty, peace, and healing to a fractured world."
