The ‘ALLUVIUM’ Series
Mixed media of layered wood, wax, plaster, and paint. Deposits of clay, silt, sand, and gravel from over flowing streams and rivers. Cross sectioned sedimentary layers, graphing timelines, revealing ever changing histories.
The ‘LOCAL NATURE’ Series
Hand carved wood, torched, with encaustic wax inlay. A study of local wildlife, always a source of wonder and inspiration.
The ‘TERRA’ Series
Carved wooden panel, torched, with encaustic wax, plaster, acrylic paint, iron oxide. Aerial views above the planet. Fictional land masses become islands. Sculpted by flooding water. Threatened by erosion and super storms, in rapid climate change.
The ‘CARVED MOTH’ Series
Carved stained wood. A bas relief study of the nocturnal moth. Silk, nectar, rebirth, camouflage, pollination, and home in the hardwood forests. Flight and drawn to the light.
The ‘VORTEX CARVING’ Series
Carved wood and encaustic wax. Ancient ammonites fossilized. Sutures, chambers, ribbed ram-horns. Atmospheric spirals forming fractal superstorms above planet Earth.
The ‘CORD’ Series
Wall sculpture, found wood, cast plaster, and acrylic paint. Spines, vessels, and life lines. Journey and pathway connecting with nature.
The ‘ASHLAND’ Series
These are photographs with encaustic wax paired with carved and torched wood. Aerial views of desert terrain, abstract, geometric, and monotone. Randomly cultivated landscape – marks on the planet surface. Followed by destruction, poison, and depletion – charring the jeweled veneer.
The ‘TREELINE’ Series
Poetry carved in the rings of trees. Stories told, journeys documented, historic cycles captured in a lifetime. Good years, bad years, prosperity and despair. Embracing the destination. Bombarded with planetary disaster, nature’s fight for preservation, balance, beauty, and survival prevail.
The ‘FOSSIL’ Series
Excavated treasure, biological reliefs of plant, insect, or animal. Replaced by mineral over millennia. Records of the past, respect of the ancient, stories of extinction, and awareness of the life cycle. A sense of beauty and collectability, energy and memory – eternal knowledge and afterlife preserved, with a warning of a future extermination.
