My work is informed by the natural world and the mountain landscapes that surround me. There is a sense of comfort in the common human experience of earth meeting sky. We all live here, on this earth, with gravity... and the lack of it. I am fortunate to see the ridge lines every day and, whether massed in stark contrast or softened in ethereal mist, every day they have something new to say, always unique to the moment.

The current pieces are made using the print making process of encaustic monotype. Each print is completely unique and cannot be replicated. These are made by creating a reverse image in pigmented beeswax melted onto a heated aluminum plate. Paper pressed onto the plate absorbs the wax image. I often overprint multiple times until I am satisfied. Prints are then mounted onto board and finished with multiple layers of encaustic medium (beeswax and damar resin). Each successive layer is fused with a torch or heat gun.

Working with melted beeswax, heat and color is an ongoing journey of experimentation, pleasantly infused with the scent of honey. I am thankful to the teachers and mentors who introduced me to the medium, as well as to the bees for making it. Creating imagined landscapes in encaustic monotype adds an element of surprise to the process. The interacting variables of temperature, liquidity, pressure, absorbency and even the weather all come into play. As such, the printmaking process provides the opportunity for a curious dance between intention and chance.

I hope to to offer the viewer an experience with my art that is as peaceful, mysterious and meditative as the process of creating it is for me.