These paintings are inspired by ancient walls with layers of writing, application of paint, removals, and abundant life created by this process.

                I start with layers of ink calligraphy on Japanese Chiri or Kozo paper infused with encaustic medium and attached to wood panels. Thin layers of encaustic paint cover these papers, sometimes transparent, sometimes obscuring.  Inscribed writing lines rubbed with oil stick add dimension and detail to these paintings.  The physical presence of paint is essential to my art.   I use encaustic to create dense ancient fresco like surfaces with layers of ink writing on Japanese paper saturated with color, scraped to reveal an inner texture, or scratched with lines to make new handwriting.  Transparency of layers and writing through thick paint are important elements in creating  all of the rich surfaces I imagine.

Verdant Script

Encaustic on Panel, 24” x 24”. 2010.

Inclusions of sumi ink handwriting on Kozo paper.

at Hunter Kirkland Contemporary

Exuberant Grapheme, sold

Luxuriant Ligature

Abundant Character

Rampant Script, sold

All paintings in this series are on 24” x 24” panels.

Sumi ink handwriting is infused with encaustic and applied in many layers along with layers of color.

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Riotous Manuscript, sold

Archaic Tryptich

Encaustic on Panel, 18” x 54”. 2010. ( three panels)