CURRENT WORK - THE CORAL SERIES

 

Artist’s Statement: The Coral Series (2006-present)

Encaustic, oil & mixed media on wood panel


Everything in nature produces giants and dwarves; the noise of the floods fills the immensity of the sky or the hollow of a shell.

GASTON BACHELARD


The Coral Series is an exploration of the architecture of life. Tiny coral polyps, pulled from parents by moontides, float through ocean depths. They drift toward the light, anchoring themselves —bone to bone— upon the generations of corals past. Each connection adds to the foundation, building upon what has come before, sculpting a reef. No longer adrift, individuals chart a larger pattern: marking the repeated cycles of life, creating something greater than themselves.


The encaustic painting technique also requires fusing, connection. Each wax layer, embedded with pigment, must be heated and fused to the layer below. Layer upon layer of wax is added as fresh forms emerge from the accumulation: revealing, obscuring, sculpting and building anew.


NOTE: Additional paintings available.


Linen thread, archival paper, etc etc paper

The Coral Series 1-9, Encaustic and oil on birch panels, 40” x 40”, Private collection

Fathom (Coral Series), encaustic & oil on pine panels, 16” x 12”, Private collection

Strength (Coral Series), oil & encaustic on birch panel, 14” x 10”. Private collection

Toward the Light, oil & encaustic on maple, 8” x 10”. $700.00

Connect: Diptych (Coral Series), encaustic & oil on pine panel, 16” x 16”, Private collection

Coral Series: Six, encaustic & oil on birch panels, dimensions variable, $4200.00