In this piece I combine encaustic with a drawing using ink wash and crayon on rice paper colleged onto the panel with encaustic medium. Deep blues and cool grays recall the shoreline of Lake Michigan on a turbulent day. The source of content for my abstract paintings, is a place familiar to me; North Point, an outcropping of very old limestone along the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. . The Water’s Edge has become a powerful metaphor for the many journeys taken through life, and following the death of my father in 2015, a metaphor for the final journey into the unknown. Looking down at the ancient surface of the bedrock and the water of Lake Michigan, I contemplate both the past and the future.
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Collections: North Point Series