My preferred painting medium is encaustic paint.
    My art is born of blending and layering many layers of encaustic paint. This allows me to create work that is rich in color and depth.
    I work with no pre-conceived ideas. The final work reveals itself as it develops… after many revisions. As the layers build up, a composition is formed and begins to give the painting a life of its own. The work is finished only when it feels right to me. It is an emotional, rather than intellectual process that determines whether the painting is successful.
    Encaustic is a Greek word meaning “to burn in”. Encaustic painting has a rich history dating back to the 5th century BC.

     The process involves heating a mixture of beeswax, tree resin and pigment and painting it on a birch panel with a brush and then re-heating with a torch.
     My work is an attempt to navigate through everyday chaos towards calm and to communicate my feelings through my art, inspiring emotions in the observer.