Show Open at Equinox Village Gallery until March 12

Some of the work being shown:

New Additions

 

My most recent exploration of encaustic painting became a journey in control.  The medium lends itself to abstraction with the fluidity created by working with heat and wax . This time I set out to try different painting techniques within the confines of the medium. These 2 "Grazing" and "Red Onions" are the results. You say "Why red onions?".....I say because " I grew them, dried them on the porch and ate them."

An ancient medium

 

Since I've been experimenting and using encaustic paint and technique it has caused a flurry of questions from those who view my work. The above 3 portraits are from a group called the Fayoum portraits which are of Greek and Roman origin. Painted when the subject is alive they are buried with the subject who has been mummified. The bottom one reminds me of a Modigliani painting.

Wow, to wax, women & work wonder.

being at a workshop for almost a week is first of all intense and amazing. the rest of your life is pushed aside as you’ve given yourself permission to experiment with process. everyday new demos by a generous teacher gives you once again ideas, materials and inspiration to create for the joy of it. and then there are others in the room doing the same, allowing, trying, doing…..the energy builds, you might explode but you want instead to do more, to see how you can edit all that information.

this was a workshop hosted by north country studio workshops at bennington college with daniella woolf teaching “encaustics with a textile sensibility”. WONDERFUL………………………………………………………………………………….

this is just a small showing of images i gathered from our workshop and others going on around us…..with thanks to the teacher and the various students whose images are being shown.

Cynthia and a ray of sunshine.

When my son called to ask about a work that he remembered me painting many years ago I looked again at it hanging on a wall of my home. The model who was a friend has passed away, my memory of working in another friend's studio, for this is the largest oil on canvas I've ever done, came back. This was in the early 80's and although it has been many times admired I kept it.  I called it my "Lucian Freud" in admiration of the painter who died this past year and had made figurative painting once again fashionable.

And the water rose up.

Although it is months since it happened I am constantly reminded of the time at the end of August when "the water rose up". No one would have predicted that a tropical storm from down south could cause such wide spread devastation as it did here in Vermont. As I began this series of small 6" x 6" pieces using encaustic paint and mixed media my interest in Japanese prints, notably Hokusai and Hiroshige 's became apparent.  I looked up their varied approaches to showing moving water being reminded that the Japanese know well the quiet and the tumultuous qualities of water.

My soul is from elsewhere,
I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Rumi ♥

New Work for a New Year

 Lately I'm drawn into the studio each day to work on another version of the latest obsession which is the universal forces. The sky, moon, light and dark passing of each day are giving me new places to inhabit. The work is mixed media combining my new found encaustics (beeswax, damar resin and pigments) with oil pastels, found objects and pencil. The texture along with colors that seem to swim together is propelling me forward.