past work
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sensory echoes
Read more: sensory echoesA collection of older acrylic paintings revisited through digital tools – some altered during an early exploration of decentralized platforms for sharing artwork, others reworked using Studio Artist’s procedural filters. The originals stay intact; what changes is contrast, color relationships, and composition, tested to see what digital layering could add to work already finished. Testing…
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postcards to myself
Read more: postcards to myselfA series of over 100 watercolor landscape paintings of Scotland, ranging from 4×6″ to 5×7″, begun Labor Day 2014 as part of the 100 Day Project with The Great Discontent and Elle Luna. Worked from photographs of places I hadn’t yet visited, painting each one became a way of researching the place itself – its…
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encaustic flora
Read more: encaustic floraEncaustic paintings made between about 2008 and 2012, the years I kept bees and started using beeswax as more than just an interest in nature – as a working material. Encaustic is an ancient technique, heated beeswax mixed with pigment and damar resin, dating back over 2,000 years, and I came to it after SEE,…
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encaustic fauna
Read more: encaustic faunaA series of bird portraits made for the Audubon Society’s Wild Arts Festival (2010) in Portland, using the same encaustic process as the encaustic flora paintings but built differently. Each bird started as a watercolor and colored pencil drawing, something I was enjoying with the product label illustrations I was commissioned to make. The birds…
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early abstracts
Read more: early abstractsAcrylic paintings with charcoal and other drawing mediums, made through the early to mid-2000s as the abstract figurative work gave way to less identifiable compositions built from color, gesture, and mark-making. This smaller-scale work would eventually lead to larger-format abstract expressionist paintings that came later in my practice.