Tidelines

is a series of super saturated encaustic monotypes that unfold line by line. These works on paper can live framed or unframed or mounted on cradle wood panels.

Encaustic paint is made from wax, pigment and damar resin, and I make my own paint to get the effects I like in monotype.  Using a large flat sheet of aluminum that is heated from underneath with lightbulbs on a dimmer to adjust the temperature, I can create imagery in wax paint on this heated palette, and print those images on various papers that accept and radiate the paint in ways I love.  Kitakata paper is a favorite.  The one-off-ness of monotype is carried farther by the unpredictable ooze and squish of melted wax.  I catch these chance occurrences on paper as fragile relics of impermanence.    

These works reflect a life lived alongside the rigorous and impermanent luminosity found in the Hudson River and the northern Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes they reflect travel further afield: far West Texas, northern New Mexico, the Canadian Maritimes and Newfoundland, Antibes.