About Me
After years of living on the East Coast, my family and I packed up and moved West. But instead of pounding out paragraphs on a keyboard, I picked up my paint brushes and revived an old dream.
Years later I'm still making a mess in my studio. My work has evolved from traditional oil painting to include encaustics and mixed media. My subject matter varies as much as the northwest weather and includes abstracts, landscapes and figures.
For those unacquainted with encaustic painting--it's an ancient medium made of beeswax, pigment and damar. It was originally used by the Egyptians to paint portraits on sarcophagi. Cool, right?
In more recent times, paint manufacturers created beautiful, easy-to-use encaustic media that give artists more time to explore subject matter rather than mix paint. Encaustics are a fascinating medium that must be heated into a liquified form to adhere to a solid surface. Like acrylics, it can be opaque or translucent. It can be thinly applied or thick like impasto. You can carve it, scrape it or embed objects like maps and photographs, thread and fabric, tissue paper and window screen, right into the wax.
This website gives you a bit of everything--well, ok, not everything. If you love something and it is sold, contact me anyway. I may have something similar in my studio. I also hope to get some charcoal figure drawings added soon.
Thanks for visiting!
Education
BA, Boston College, English and Communications
Studio Art Minor
Studio Courses & Workshops
Life Drawing Open Studio
Bainbridge Island, ongoing
Winslow Arts Center
Bainbridge Island
Museum School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art
Boston, MA
The DeCordova Museum
Lincoln, MA
Danforth Museum
Framingham, MA
Community
Bainbridge Island Public Art Committee, member, 2016-present
Arts & Humanities Bainbridge, Board Member, VP, 2010-2013
Exhibitions
2019
Armstrong Art Gallery & Amelia Wynn Winery, Bainbridge Island, Holiday Group Show
2018
"Figuratively Speaking," Bainbridge Arts & Crafts--The Art Project
Armstrong Art Gallery & Amelia Wynn Winery, Bainbridge Island
2017
Treehouse Cafe, Bainbridge Island, Strawberry Hill Artist Group Show
2016
Treehouse Cafe, Bainbridge Island, solo show
2015
2014
16th Annual Expressions Northwest, Northwinds Arts Center, Port Townsend
2012
Treehouse Cafe, Bainbridge Island, solo show
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Arts & Humanities Bainbridge Auction
2011
Treehouse Cafe, Bainbridge Island, solo show
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Arts & Humanities Bainbridge Auction
2010
Treehouse Cafe, Bainbridge Island, solo show
Winslow Art Center, Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Performing Arts, Bainbridge Island, solo show
Bainbridge Island Library, solo show
2009
2007
2006
Contact Me
Email me for more information, pricing, new work, upcoming exhibitions, or to tell me what you think!