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NEW WORK 2025.  In my encaustic monotypes, heated wax becomes an active collaborator.  Its fluidity requires immediacy and responsiveness. I move with the wax as it flows across the plate, allowing direction and interruption to emerge organically.  The resulting prints retain the trace of this choreography - layered, translucent, and spatially dynamic.

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​​*Encaustic is a Greek word meaning “to heat or burn in” (enkaustikos). Heat is used throughout the process, from melting the beeswax and varnish to fusing the layers of wax. Encaustic consists of natural bees wax and dammar resin (crystallized tree sap). The medium can be used alone for its transparency or adhesive qualities or used pigmented. Pigments may be added to the medium, or purchased colored with traditional artist pigments. The medium is melted and applied with a brush or any tool the artist wishes to create from."  

 

 

From Encaustic Art Institute ​​