Embracing the freedom of my own creativity, I translate the experiences of our world into textured and vivid encaustic paintings. My practice was built on a lifelong passion for artistic creation. As a self-taught artist, I developed the foundational skills of painting through still lifes and landscapes and went on to establish a practice in ceramics and sculpture.

However, my practice has evolved in recent years. I have discovered my fondness for encaustics and the new subtleties it can bring to a seemingly two-dimensional work.

In my process, I work with three electric griddles to melt various blocks of pigmented beeswax at a single time. I pour, paint, and mix the molten wax onto wooden panels, building notions of dimension and negative space. I complement the encaustic with the incorporation of other mediums. Integrating photography, collage, pastels, watercolor, oil, and even fragments of ceramics into my creative process, I add new textures and complexities to each composition. While an extensive and often meticulous process, I incorporate an element of spontaneity. I delicately apply the flame to the surface intuitively manipulating the wax to realize my exquisite images. My process embraces experimentation.

The layers of wax come together in beautiful and bold saturations of color alongside the nature of the encaustic adding patches of translucency, coalesced together through the flame into a singular form. I scratch at the surface. In an act of mark making, I employ forks, dental tools, and woodburning tools to scrape away until new visual and physical effects are revealed.

I massage oil paints to the newly unearthed crevices, orchestrating distinctive highlights of color that accent each piece. The work becomes a process of layering and excavating, introducing a visible component of temporality, until finally the narrative of my piece is uncovered.