For almost 20 years, encaustic has been my painting medium. Experimentation with prepared wax mediums and my own cold wax emulsions preceded my long-standing love affair with molten beeswax, where what goes on under its translucent surfaces interests me as much as what happens on top. My paintings are constructed in layers that can be filled in, scraped down, carved into or piled up, just like strata of the earth.

My new work began in early 2002 as a yearning for quiet and refuge, simplicity and order in a noisy, stressed and chaotic post 9/11 world. Although I began the pieces instinctively, I was both reacting against the complicated organic forms of the natural world that I had been using for years, and revisiting and re-implementing in new and different ways ideas I explored in the early 1990’s. These paintings strive to transcend time by blending the past and present through my choices of materials, methods and imagery, both ancient and contemporary. They also attempt to radiate inner light and optimism along with energetic tension that is nonetheless grounded in harmonious order.