Reservoir 2 Painting

Intricate labor-intensive techniques have always drawn me like a magnet, from my earliest endeavors in cut paper, collage, and realistic oil painting to my current work in acrylic and wax pastel. In graduate school I began the work with layered acrylic paint which has evolved into my carved acrylic paintings. Those highly textured pieces, in turn, spawned the next generation of work in which I use wax pastels to create rubbings on polypropylene sheets (Yupo). The rubbings are made from the surfaces of my paintings additional created textures. I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. From there, in pursuit of education, employment, and adventure, I found my way to all fifty United States as well as Israel, Palestine, Canada, and Italy. Raleigh, NC, has been my home since 2004.