art retreat

our critique group, exhibit6, on retreat in Saugatuck Michigan - November 2014. Here are a few images of some of my mark making adventures. This week was  the first time I tried searching for some wax backgrounds that would look good with these marks. I had some luck but no photos yet.

studio space

studio space 2

favorite 1

favorite 2

favorite 3

The studio space was large enough for the 6 of us in the Saugatuck Center for the Arts.

Silver Liquid: a tribute to water - part 3

Exhibition dates: October 19 - November 28, 2010

"Sumi Pond"
encaustic on Sumi drawing on wood panel
22" x 22" x 2"



"black ink"
encaustic on Sumi drawing on wood panel
22" x 22" x 2"


WSG Gallery
306 S. Main Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103
734.761.2287
WSG website
WSG blog

more to come -

Silver Liquid: a tribute to water - the photos

This is the first in a series of posts about my new exhibit at WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These photos hang in a grid. The grid makes up one of 11 pieces in the exhibit. All of these photos are printed on 8 1/2 x 11 rag paper using pigmented ink.

The exhibit runs from October 18 - November 28, 2010. WSG Gallery is located at 306 S. Main, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The opening reception was October 22, 7-10 pm.

Snoqualmie Falls, Seattle Washington

studio 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan

studio 2, Ann Arbor, Michigan

fog on Mohonk Mountain, High Falls, New York

water as solvent, window cleaners on some hotel windows

sand pattern on Wingaersheek Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts

water reflections in the water off Roatan, Honduras but they could be anywhere with the sun and water in the right relationship. I love these patterns wherever I encounter them.

Jones River Salt Flat grasses with water drops as jewels (altered), Gloucester, Massachusetts

Grand Traverse Bay tranquility, Michigan

Grand Traverse Bay sedges with their doppelgangers, Michigan

with Jim and Christina, Sarah and Pete in Cornwall, England

with friends in Cornwall, England

some hardy surfers in Cornwall, England

bull kelp off British Columbia, Canada

"The Distance Between Black and White" - Woman Made Gallery

These are photos of the pieces that were in the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, September 2 - 28, 2008. All of them are acrylic transfers of photos on the back of half inch sanded plexiglas. Each on is 18"x24" or 24"x18".

"Porch Rain"


"Ocean Web"


"Black Tree"


"Land"


"Grasses"


"Skywriting"


"Lake Michigan Trees"


"Tree Fence"

Second Annual Encaustic Conference

This is an image of "White Weather" a piece of mine that was juried into the exhibit at the Second Annual Encaustic Conference being held at the Montserrat College of Art this June. Using infrared film, I snatched this composition from the length of the film strip, waxed it and paper engineered it to this geometric, 3 Dimensional shape. The folded pattern works with the printed pattern like weather components layer upon diurnal rhythms to give us each unique, meteorological day. I took the photographs in 2005. I created this piece in 2008.

The juror was Laura Moriarity, Director of Exhibitions at the Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints. Laura is a painter and sculptor, beginning with multi layered flat wax which she builds into very 3 Dimensional forms.