Art Becomes

I’ve been painting and working in clay since college, where I studied color theory, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and painting. I started a line of functional ceramics as a small business in 1997 after studying with Carol Gouthro, and have worked with metal, oils, and acrylics, but my medium of choice is bee’s wax. I learned a great deal studying with Jef Gunn and Larry Caulkins at Pratt Fine Arts Center, and have been focusing for the last 9 years exclusively on encaustics. It is the one medium that affords all the other materials I’ve worked with to overlap and inform one another. Bee’s wax is aromatic and physical, romantic and transparent, addictive and difficult. I find it inherently lovely.