This series is about the fecundity and fragility of nature. The encaustic medium uses pure beeswax as a vehicle for color pigments and gives an extraordinary depth and luster.

Being female is delicious; being feminist is to respond to human cultural norms with energy and a healthy indignation when women are treated as less than. Sometimes a woman just has to shout.

Painted from life, fragments of this exuberant sun-tropical landscape scatter their strength, fragrance and fragility through the watercolor paintings done in gardens, swamps, woodlands and state parks in Florida