I have studied painting for the past six years. My current work shows an eclectic desire to mix methods and materials.
In the past I have mixed photographic, alternative, printmaking, and papermaking techniques.
I have two bodies of work represented here. One uses photographic images from trips to my country of birth intertwined with painting and overlaid with encaustic. These images deal with my concern for ecological and social issues.
In the next grouping I have returned to ink scrolls made 20 years ago whilst studying Chinese Brush painting. I have applied these images on rice paper to canvas and overpainted. I then made new brush paintings with inks on rice paper using large brushes and wove these into my paintings. These new canvases are involved more with the process of painting itself and with the freeing of older inhibitions, coupled with my inclination to mix media.
In the past I have mixed photographic, alternative, printmaking, and papermaking techniques.
I have two bodies of work represented here. One uses photographic images from trips to my country of birth intertwined with painting and overlaid with encaustic. These images deal with my concern for ecological and social issues.
In the next grouping I have returned to ink scrolls made 20 years ago whilst studying Chinese Brush painting. I have applied these images on rice paper to canvas and overpainted. I then made new brush paintings with inks on rice paper using large brushes and wove these into my paintings. These new canvases are involved more with the process of painting itself and with the freeing of older inhibitions, coupled with my inclination to mix media.
