Paintings
Since I am more intuitively a sculptor, I was delighted to discover encaustic as a painting medium. The tactility of the material (melted beeswax and damar resin, with or without added pigments) inspires and satisfies my tendencies towards texture and 3D form as it can be built-up, carved or have other materials embedded within it.. I have used wood, bark, paper, metal, twigs and grass as part of my explorations into the possibilities offered by this approach.
 Spriner_Sarah_How The Light Gets In_first |  Quartering SeasEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, tree bark, charcoal and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
16" x 20" |  Out of DarknessEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, paper, imitation gold leaf, oils and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" |
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 Everything was perfect until it wasnEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" (SOLD) |  An Unexpected ThawEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, faux gold leaf and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" NFS |  For A Brief Shining MomentEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, faux gold leaf, oil pigment sticks and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" |
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 Springer_1_Detritus Copper & Magenta |  ReverberationsEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, oil pigment sticks and india ink on cradled birch panel
36" x 36" SOLD |  New NazcaEncaustic & mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, oil pigment sticks and india ink on cradled birch panel
36" x 36" SOLD |
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Carteographs
This series is inspired by my fascination with maps of all kinds, and what they tell us about societies’ intrinsic desire to not only create but also document their built environments. Maps of ancient ruins are often the only thing left of ancient or prehistoric cultures – and it excites the imagination to fill in the gaps. Humans build communities, and the community’s social boundaries and cultural customs are expressed in the patterns of those maps. Often, our worlds shape us as much as we shape them. I strive to convey the embodied spirit of those former or imagined worlds in material form.
 Lost Land of the Cloud PeopleBeeswax, damar resin, paper, ark, oil pigment stick, and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" (SOLD) |  Root of all EvilBeeswax, damar resin, silver leaf, cardboard, roots, paper, wood and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" (SOLD) |  DetenteBeeswax, damar resin, paper, wood and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" |
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 Border ClosingsBeeswax, damar resin, paper, oils and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 24" |  Tra Le VigneBeeswax, damar resin, paper, bark and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" (SOLD) |  Over the RiverBeeswax, damar resin, paper, pastel, roots and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" (SOLD) |
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 Central ParkBeeswax, damar resin, paper, pastels, roots and powdered graphite on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" (SOLD) |  Past ReflectionsBeeswax, damar resin, paper, graphite and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" (SOLD) |  AdriftBeeswax, damar resin, paper, pastels, rust and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x18" (SOLD) |
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 Fallow FieldsBeeswax, damar resin, paper, oil pigment stick and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" |  It Takes a VillageBeeswax, damar resin, paper, vellum and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" |  Childhood RootsBeeswax, damar resin, paper, cording and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" |
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 We are ALL ImmigrantsBeeswax, damar resin, paper, vellum and powdered pigments on cradled birch panel
24" x 24" |
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A Punch to the Gut
2016
The US elections left many of us feeling shattered, as if we'd been attacked, and wanting to hit back in response. The creation of these images reflected the mental and emotional violence of that process ... the surfaces have been stabbed, slashed and scarred to reveal the built-up accretions underneath.
 Election 1, Shape of DialogueMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, nails, pigments and pastel on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" (sold) |  Election 2, UnsalvageableMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, pigment and pastel on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" (sold) |  Election 3, From Unexpected QuartersMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, pigment and pastel on cradled birch panel
18" x 18" |
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Qosqo Dyads
2017
A chance exposure to the art of ancient Inca stoneworking left me blissfully haunted, as if the stones were speaking to me from eons past. Those shapes have been inserting themselves in these studies, and the arrangements of pairs let them continue to talk to each other.
 talking stones dyad 1Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 2Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 3Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |
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 talking stones dyad 4Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" (SOLD) |  talking stones dyad 5Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 6Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |
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 talking stones dyad 7Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 8Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 9Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |
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 talking stones dyad 10Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 11Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |  talking stones dyad 12Cold wax and oil pigments on Arches oil paper
9" x 12" |
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Black & White
2015
The simplicity of the palette in these paintings allows for engagement with the dimensional aspects. The wax has been both built up as well as scratched and carved into, providing a more primal emotional expression.
 Mexican ExcavationMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, and pastel on oak panel
10 1/4" x 14 1/4" |  On the VergeMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, rusted steel and pastel on oak panel
10 1/4" x 14 1/4" (SOLD) |  Worlds ApartMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, and pastel on oak panel
10 1/4" x 14 1/4" |
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Inside Outside Inbetwixt
2015 - 2016
Explorations of surface, depth and division
 OpusEncaustic - beeswax, damar resin, and india ink on cradled birch panel
10" x 10" x 1.5" |  My Soul Is An Open BookMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, fabric and found paper on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |  Between Ripe and RuinMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, and pastel on cradled birch panel
10" x 10" x 1.5" (SOLD) |
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 Until My Darkness GoesMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, india ink, string and cloth on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |  Pandora's PillowMixed media - beeswax, damar resin, india ink and cloth on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |
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Orb Ore Ova
2015
A series of circular forms with a curiously permuting scale - they can be thought of as small as a cell or as large as a celestial body.
 Ova #1Mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, powdered gold, thread, glass beads, and pastel on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |  Ova #2Mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, powdered gold, and powdered graphite on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |  Ova #3Mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, powdered gold, rusted steel, and pastel on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |
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 Ova #5Mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, powdered gold, and pastel on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |  Ova #7Mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, powdered gold, powdered bronze, fiber mesh, and pastel on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" |  Ova #8Mixed media - beeswax, damar resin, plastic, and pastel on cradled birch panel
8" x 8" x 1.5" (SOLD) |
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