This series evokes landscapes, weatherscapes, eruptive events, travelogues and small prayers for the planet. It's inspiration is the Pacific Northwest. Assorted paper pieces and scraps are moved around until I get a sensation of recognition or rightness, and then find a combination of individual images to imply a sense of poetic narrative.

 

The construction is mixed media collage using inks, watercolors, markers and pencils to draw and paint on Asian papers, such as Japanese kozo paper, Nepalese lotka paper and rice paper. The papers are then saturated with clear encaustic wax medium, making them into more vibrant and often translucent sheets that can be cut, torn, layered, arranged, and finally, fused onto encaustic coated wood panels.

 

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