I live in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a town just outside Philadelphia, with my husband and 4 children. I have progressed from taking classes at the University Arts League and Fleisher Art Memorial to hitting my stride and becoming a full time artist after attending Tyler School of Art.
Originally working in the fibers medium, I eventually found my way to encaustic and mixed media. My love affair with encaustic (pigmented wax) is based on the media's incredible versatility and unpredictability---it can be as smooth as glass or as textured as burlap. It goes from molten liquid to a solid in a matter of seconds. Because of encaustic’s dynamic nature, every time I paint with it I learn something new. I especially enjoy combining wax with found materials -- anything from discarded bottle caps to old library books is fair game.
At present I am struggling with strong emotions engendered by changes in my life. This is exemplified in my work by my choices of color and texture and the resulting tension between attraction and repulsion.
Ultimately it is my desire that all I do reflects the work of the Ultimate Creator.
-European altarpieces
-Outsider art
-Contemporary and Primitive African art
-Urban ruins
-15th and 16th century Northern European painters especially Bosch and Bruegel
