For the last decade I have been working in mixed media painting from my studio in Portland, Oregon. I typically work with a beeswax and resin based based paint called encaustic. Encaustic is a wonderful vehicle for mixed media artworks, and I frequently integrate drawing and different kinds of natural fiber papers into my pieces. I make most of the paint I use myself. My art imagery moves back and forth between figurative and landscape. When using the figure, I'm often thinking about how a gesture or pose reflects a certain state of mind or view of the...more