Since You Asked…
People come and they go, they wander in and out of our booths at art fairs, sometimes they engage with us, often they do not. They ponder to themselves and to their companions, they wonder aloud about what our inspiration might be, they ask questions that , depending on the point at which we are in the show may really rub us the wrong way…
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Out of the darkness…
Navigating significant shifts in day-to-day realities, the loss of life and love I thought would last forever. This work was born out of an exploration of both theme and medium, to form a bridge back to myself, an attempt to find peace within upheaval...
With the beginning of the pandemic, the world grew quiet, my work, much like life - stalled. There seemed little room for the elaborate, decorative nature of my previous practice. Like many, I was at a loss. Though I was privileged to find myself physically in a beautiful place, emotionally and creatively, I found myself in near-constant darkness.
During this period, a convergence of mediums and what may be considered two distinct bodies of work emerged, providing what turned out to be a complicated path out of that darkness.
A symbol of rebirth and resurrection, the hare, has been a consistent image in my work, and as such, provided the foothold to push forward. A messenger between this world and the next, the Raven became a keystone discovered along the path. The peony thought to symbolize good luck and prosperity - elusive qualities that tend to ebb and flow - here speaks to the fragility of life. Together, these seemingly disparate subjects provide a perch from which I can look back
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Ghost Peonies - A foray into oil painting….
A bit of a departure from my encaustic practice through which I attempt to navigate a deeply personal loss. The fragility of life is represented by the delicacy of the petal, the palette underscores a continuous desire to emerge from the darkness…..
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Gilded Garden
This series is a derivative of The Whimsical Woodland. It began as an exploration in materials - a desire to evolve the backgrounds of the work. While the portraits remain true to the theme of “WW” the use of the gold leaf halos, while not intrinsically religious, is a nod to Byzantine Art while the foliate pattern speaks to seasonal change…..
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Whimsical Woodland
This is an ongoing series of encaustic anthropomorphic portraits exploring the relationship we humans have with one another during a particularly turbulent time.
In “The Whimsical Woodland” animals who are ordinarily adversaries are depicted as friends and family, they frolic together rejoicing in their differences rather than being defined by them. They are deliberately portrayed in costume from an era fraught with discourse, a time of judgement and never ending battles for supremacy and survival. Referencing a time so long ago, and yet how far have we come?
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