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Watcher on Lake Huron grew out of the quality of light you find in the afterglow of a sunset, when all of the sunset watchers have gone home. The light and the colours are never the same twice. This lone willow watches. That's its job. Staying rooted while everything around it moves. Encaustic paint — layer on layer of beeswax and pigment — catches light the way water does, from the inside out. The tree is rendered through laser print photo transfer from my own photograph of this iconic willow at Goderich's Main Beach. At 48 inches wide it has...

I love to use different materials in my work, but my primary medium of choice over time continues to be encaustic paint. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. It is fun to build texture It has a translucent quality that gives a feeling of mystery. While working and playing with it, I encounter unexpected results leading me to new discoveries and imagery.  It as a generous medium and gives the artist so many possibilities in its process. It is made with the help of bees and trees...more on this below. It has a beautiful smell. It is an...

I have set up a new space for patrons of my work. You are a patron even if you come here to simply spend time looking at my art. It can take time to build a relationship with an artist's work so feel free to visit often. When I post each of my pieces of art to this space, I realize that am setting up conduits of connection with you the viewer. I visualize a myriad of things that might happen when you look at my art. I see you reflecting on what you see. I see you making connections to something you have seen before,...