Registration is now open for the 2025 – 2026 session of this yearlong online encaustic painting course.

Learn more about this inspiring course that features more than 2 dozen renowned instructors from around the world (plus me!) The new year begins on April 23rd and new lessons are released every week.

I’m thoroughly delighted to return for my 5th year as instructor for the yearlong online course, Painting with Fire, hosted by Essence of Mulranny Studios on the wild west coast of Ireland! (A.K.A Mecca for wax-media artists)

Each week a new lesson is released, plus extra special features like artist profiles. When you join, you will not only have lifelong access to all the lessons and resources shared throughout the year, you will also become a member of a vibrant community of participating artists and instructors who share and discuss their work while throughout the year while responding to questions about a wide range of issues encaustic artists encounter.

This year, my main lesson is Skygazing: creating a sense of atmosphere with encaustics and oils. I will also offer a demo: Finishing Touches: framing and presenting encaustic works on paper and panel. In addition, my artist profile will explore my journey from theater painting to encaustics and how the experience of working at such a large scale onstage informs all that I do as an encaustic mixed-media painter.

In recognition of the turbulent times in which we live, I have decided to donate 100% of my proceeds from the Painting with Fire tuition to Doctors Without Borders and World Central Kitchen. 

Hope you’ll join this year!

Painting the Ephemeral

Join me in Mulranny Ireland for a weeklong retreat!

August 23 – 30, 2025

Our dreams and visual memories are quite unlike still or moving images captured by a camera even as we often use those images as source material.

Our mind’s eye envisions fragments and traces of images that overlay one another, shaped, reshaped, accentuated and even distorted by our emotional and visceral responses. 

During this retreat, we will immerse ourselves in Mulranny’s spectacular wild Atlantic coastal landscape, exploring ways to tap into our vast internal reservoirs of fleeting visual memories—memories of people, places and things—and then express our responses to those ephemeral images as we work with wax media on paper and panels.

Learn more and register for this intimate retreat.

A Yearlong Online Course

I am delighted to invite you to join me in the online encaustic painting course, Painting with Fire 2024/2025!⁠
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My sessions in the coming year will focus on enhancing your encaustic paintings by building textural depth and by excavating multi-layered works to reveal hidden gems.⁠
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I will be part of a remarkable faculty of 28 renowned international instructors who work with wax media. New lessons are released weekly and you can watch them at any time (with now expiration date.)⁠
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A full year of lessons is only $249! (That’s the earlybird rate available for a limited time.)⁠
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Sessions begin April 24. One of the extra bonuses of enrolling is that you are invited to participate in a Facebook group where you can post questions, share your artwork, and interact with all of the instructors and students from around the world.

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June 11, 2023 is the final day to see Quiet Observations at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Warren Street in Hudson, New York. Here are several of my works included in this exhibition.

Visit my page on the Carrie Haddad Gallery website for information on works that are available (and the works that have found new homes!)

That fleeting moment when the sky is on fire…

Inspired by the glorious, moody sunsets over a nearby reservoir.

I am finishing this 16 by 20 encaustic painting with oils and wax over a watercolor base for an upcoming show at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York opening on April 21, 2023.

Reservoir in Autumn is on view at the Cooperstown Art Association in Cooperstown, New York, as part of my solo show, Radiant Edges through October 28.

Here is a glimpse at the evolution of this encaustic painting starting with the watercolor base followed by layers of encaustics, India inks, and oils. A special thank you to Marie and Steve Dungan for loaning me this painting which is part of their private collection.

Out of Darkness

That moment when the light of the rising sun, filtered by the forest, pierces darkness, painting the winter landscape in blue and gold.

Inspired by a fleeting moment I glimpsed last week through my bedroom window.