Assemblage (wooden walking sticks, antique rolling mechanics platform, wood, wooden wheels, and oil) 22” x 33” x 14”
Achemist's Basin
Kava bowl, French spoons, encaustic, shellac, 12” x 15” x 15”
Beginners Basin
kava bowl, French spoons, encaustic, graphite powder and silver leaf, 30” x 22” x 22”
Bloom
Encaustic Monotype, 25" x 23"
Compartmentalized
Found object Assemblage, 32” x 19” x 2”
Constellation
Encaustic monotype 14" x 14"
Detour
Found object assemblage, 27" x 11"
Downbeat
Encaustic monotype collage, 18" x 37"
Eclipse
Encaustic Monotype collage, 8” x 30"
Flight Patterns
Encaustic monotype, 16" x 16" (The sale of this piece benefits our non-profit, Zenith Community Arts Foundation)
Ground Zero
acrylic, barbed wore, metal rod,fabric, keys, and netting on wood panel, 36" x 33" x 5"
Haven
Found object Assemblage, 27” x 22” x 3”
High Ceilings, Bottom Drawers
Assemblage and Encaustic on panel 21” x 21”framed
High Tide Table
Coconut bowls, walking sticks, sand, shells, Japanese fishing net, encaustic, powdered pigment, variegated leaf, and oil, 58” x 20” x 16”
Incarnation
Encaustic, paper, oil, silver plated fruit, 27” x 10” x 1.5”
Life Boat
Found laminated wood, found wood, Eastern
European spoons, encaustic, paper, and oil, 40” x 38” x 6”
Light Fantastic
Encaustic monotype, 30” x 20”
Mending Fences
Found object assemblage, 18" x 18"
Present Tense
SOLD
Renewable Feast
Carved wooden door head from India, Eastern
European spoons, saw blade, wood, and oil, 26” x 51” x 3”
Whose Story
Mixed media collage on paper, 19” x 34”
Winter's Edge
Encaustic monotype, 18" x 18"
My work is inspired by, and created out of, found objects. I juxtapose old tools and other household items – books, bowls, cutlery, with a tactile evidence of history, and function. I transform them with a variety of media – wax, oil, gold leaf, dry pigment – and in doing so, create a new narrative of fragility, inter-relationship, change and impermanence. In each piece, items rise out of their menial station and become characters in a narrative – a spoon becomes a caretaker, or spirit, forks become soldiers, sailors, or lovers. In relationship with others, and in new definitive contexts, each will anthropomorphize into something else –something more. Re- framed, these humble objects echo celestial bodies, oracles, landscapes of desolation, cultural origin stories, inviting us to reflect on our place in the world, and on the human condition. The ultimate intention of my work is an aesthetic experience of human inter-connectedness.
