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…
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…
This 16 x 20 inch encaustic painting with India ink and just a few light touches of oil was inspired by the views from an Amtrak railway car along the Hudson River as I returned from NYC to my home in the Northern Catskill Mountains. (And this painting is coming soon to Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY!)
A Yearlong Online Course I am delighted to invite you to join me in the online encaustic painting course, Painting with Fire 2024/2025!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.I will be part of a remarkable faculty of 28 renowned international instructors who work with wax…
12 x 16 inch encaustic with oils and wax over watercolor
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…
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.
India inks and oils over encaustic over watercolor. The edges of day, last brilliant glimmers of light as the sun slips down below the Northern Catskill Mountains. I’m drawn, again and again, to this theme of ephemeral, temporal beauty and wonder as the light whispers at dusk and dawn. Working with these layers of translucent media allows much depth, atmosphere, and light. Recently on…