Process

The works are constructed in paint and collage; they reference ideas of personal history and are themselves meditations on the creative process.

The raw material used in these paintings are altered book-pages. They provide an important stimulating impulse for each work; their familiar forms and printed surfaces reflect a history as ‘carriers’ of ideas and information.

Because of the unpredictable, non linear ‘construction’ of these paintings, the final state of each work and it’s meaning remains dependant on the particular viewer and their ‘reading’ of the work. This role of the work as ‘intermediary’ between artist and viewer is an important element in the artist’s creative process.

The works are primarily created in the Encaustic medium, a painting technique that consists of suspending color pigment in a solution of hot wax and resin.  The wax solution serves as both medium and adhesive for the collage elements. Using the hotplate as palette, the paint is applied to the surface of the canvas with brush, the multiple layers of paint fusing through the heating process.