cleaning the studio...

...and other adventures in art

12×12 (x12)

This piece is currently in a show at the Cabrillo Gallery titled “12×12 (x12): An Open Invitational 2014.  As you can guess from the title, all pieces in the show are 12″x12″ (x12″), which makes for a cohesive show. A trick of the eye...

size matters

I have many thoughts about my current series of large-scale paintings, but I’m going to limit this post to the topic of mark-making as it relates to scale. I started thinking about this perhaps a year ago, while I was working with small encaustics but...

sleight of hand

I’ve grown rather fond of this suite of ten small encaustic pieces that I’ve just completed. Each is 6″x6″, encaustic on panel.  I delivered them today to this show: Sleight of Hand Pajaro Valley Arts Council Gallery January 16 – February...

the thicket

More images from my encaustic series about children.  I explained what I’m doing in my last post, “in memory”.  To recap, I am thinking both of children’s fragility and resilience, their resolve and vulnerability.  I think of the piece on the...

in memory

In the wake of the Newtown school shootings last Friday, I was at a loss for ideas as I walked into my studio Monday morning.  I have a child, and the sheer horror of what happened is unfathomable, unbearable, unimaginable. I’ve long considered using children as...