Going Organic!

Since my work began with my collection of abandoned old photographs, I have been searching for some new ways of approaching them - and for looking at them for an immediate inspiration and source for new works. This week I started experimenting with making drawings from them, and using frosted vellum, china marker and turpentine. Enjoy! And stay posted for a whole new line of characters to create your own stories with.

Midnight With The Sisters

The Return of the Rust and the Nuns

As the leaves and the vegetation become the color of rust, I find myself reflecting and as always catching my breathe. The gallery and its responsibilities have found me a little too busy, but now I am beginning to have some time to gain some momentum again in the studio. My Italy paintings painted this past summer had sent me back to painting in a more traditional process. Now I find myself playing with some imagery of a pond that I have been visiting on my return trips from teaching at Thomas College in the afternoons.  Once they have evolved a bit more, I'll share them here.

Also moving along is my work with encaustics where I am having a lot of fun letting the wax do its thing but also building up a heavily drawn and layered surface of etched marks, thick wax, and collage elements such as dress patterns, found wood pieces and more.  Here exemplifies one of my newest pieces, yet again the nuns!

Enjoy!