Knot Series Artist Statement


The knot series of encaustic paintings with hand-drawn silkscreened knots is based on rope I discover washed up on beaches. I document these found lines through photographs, and then transform them into simplified line drawings, carborundum plates, and silkscreens. I explore concepts of time and place: these free-form shapes pre-existed my drawings, themselves having recorded unseen elements, tides or people. Through repetitive and rotated imagery, these drawn knots often anthropomorphize into human-like forms surreptitiously caught dancing, embracing, hiding, or fighting. By stripping the body of its human form and personal identity, but leaving intact gesture and interaction, these works express universal emotions and actions, all while referencing a hidden tangible past with origins in found objects.

All That Glitters I
2018
encaustic monotype with oil stick on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
All That Glitters II
2018
encaustic monotype with oil stick on cradled panel
12 x 12
Into the Deep
2018
encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Untitled
2017
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Leap of Faith I
2018
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Leap of Faith II
2018
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Leap of Faith III
2018
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Maelstrom I
2018
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Recede
2018
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Maelstrom II
2018
encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
(k)not
2018
encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Winter III
20181
encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Hidden
2018
encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Written History V
Encaustic on cradled panel
12 x 12 inches
Chain Reaction
2018
encaustic on cradled panel
26 x 10 inches
Quiet I
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
12 x 12 inches
Defeat
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Leap
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Written history I
2017
Encaustic and mixed media on birch panel
12 x 12 inches
Written History II
2017
Encaustic and mixed media on birch panel
12 x 12 inches
Hang
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Float
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Disoriented
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Fight
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Peek
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Embrace
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
8 x 8 inches
Written History III (Diptych)
2017
Encaustic on birch panel
16 x 24 inches
I Do, I Don't (View A)
2017
Encaustic and mixed media on cradled birch
12 x 12 inches
Diptych with alternate arrangement, see View B for additional arrangement
I Do, I Don't (View B)
2017
Encaustic and mixed media on cradled birch
12 x 12 inches
Diptych with alternate arrangement, see View A for additional arrangement