Weaving, applique, and embroidery from many cultures inspire
my recent paintings. Patterns and their inconsistencies overlap,
lean, and slam up against each other to create irregular geometric
forms that bulge and squeeze and generate movement both inside
and outside the frame. These fragments are enlarged to encourage
the close examination of the parts that make them up.
Encaustic is an ancient painting technique that was first used by
Greek and Roman artists in the first century B.C. The paint
combines dry pigments found in nature, suspended in beeswax, produced
by bees and damar resin taken from tree sap. The paint is then
applied hot and molten to the rigid panel support. After each
layer is brushed on, it is re-heated and melted, and thus fused to
the wax layer below. Against and in contrast to the inherent
fluidity of encaustic I have developed the control you see contained
in my work. |
