Upcoming Workshops & Retreats

Of Dreams & Half-Forgotten Memories: Painting the Ephemeral

A weeklong retreat at Essence of Mulranny Studios, Mulranny Ireland

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.


Announcing 2025 In-Person Workshops at the Woodstock School of Art

Here is my WSA 2025 workshop schedule!

Details and registration links will be available soon.

A sense of clouds

January 25 – 26, 2025

Register for this session.

In this two-day encaustic workshop, we will explore ways to create dramatic and compelling skyscapes.

Registration is limited to 10 participants and will take place at the Woodstock School of Art with generous support by R&F Handmade Paints.


A Sense of Place: Abstract Encaustic landscapes

April 5 -6, 2025

Sept 13 – 14, 2025

the best of both worlds: Combining encaustics & oils

May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, 2025

July 2, July 9, July 16, July 23, 2025

exploring Encaustic Mixed-media

August 16 – 17, 2025

fallen blossoms

Oct 11 – 12, 2025

a sense of trees

Nov 22 – 23, 2025