ClockTower Painting

The media I am currently working in is encaustic collage. Encaustic is an ancient process using heat and wax. Biblical themes, ideas, and accounts are laced throughout my work and remain a spring board and compass to understanding and interpreting the content. Repetition is also an important element, as it reflects how we learn and experience life. The subjects in the images reflect ideas and thoughts common to all, life, death, birth, time, work, celebration and conflicts, internal and external. I look at my work as a thought provoking search of ideas and experiences sealed in a “skin” of wax. I begin my work by making a matrix that can be reused, as with printmaking. I typically start with rubbings from one or more sources, and embellish that work with a variety of mediums, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, crayon, pastel. I then apply wax, sealing the image. It can be adhered to a support, or left as a work on paper. I then continue to embellish the work with collage cutouts and encaustic paint to further the repetition, composition and statement. Note: It is highly recommended that this work should not be displayed in direct sunlight or near a heat source for an extended amount of time.