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 media. New lessons are released weekly and you can watch them at any time (with now expiration date.)⁠ ⁠ A full year of lessons is only $249! (That’s the earlybird rate available for a limite ..read more

12 x 16 inch encaustic with oils and wax over watercolor ..read more

Join me at THE WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART this summer! Click here for details and registration. Create works that convey a sense of being lit from within through the use of layers of encaustic medium combined with a wide range of other media including oils with beeswax, India inks and watercolors ..read more

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 ..read more

Register for a yearlong online course with 26 diverse Encaustic Art Instructors (including me!) Visit my upcoming workshops page for details or click right here to register. Early bird rate is only $249 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

Encaustic, India ink, and oils with beeswax over watercolor on birch panel 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 ..read more

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 ..read more

These are a few of my paintings that will be on display at the Carrie Haddad Gallery on Warren Street in Hudson, New York, in A Changing Landscape, November 24, 2021 – January 16, 2022. Opening reception is Saturday, November 27 from 5 to 7 pm. Hope to see you ..read more