The Light Slips away

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 display at The Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York, this 8 x 8 painting has found a new home.

Along the Hudson

I sometimes take an Amtrak train from Hudson to NYC and always try to find a window seat facing west. For two hours, the rapidly passing views of river, sky, and a thin slice of land that forms the seam between the two fill me with awe at being a temporal creature drifting along the edge between heaven and earth.

Those tensions and connections between earth and sky informed the progress of this painting which consists of a base layer of watercolor followed by layers of encaustics, oils with beeswax, and India inks, built up, scraped back, and built up again – cycles of creation and destruction, growth and decay, repeating themselves again and again, eternally.

Nocturne 2

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Preparing this painting done in encaustics with oils and beeswax over watercolor for an upcoming exhibit at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center in Solomons, Maryland: When Darkenss Falls.