An Abstract Artist
Lives In two Countries


After decades as a successful graphic designer and marketing communications director in the
mad-paced Southern California business landscape,
I turned my attention to a new adventure and a new career.
I moved to Central America and began to focus on fine art. Recognition and sales took off. Seeking a larger market, I spent years establishing myself on the international art stage in the beautiful, colorful, antique city of San Miguel de Allende --  Mexico's art colony and culture capital.

2020's Covid-19 Pandemic brought me back home to Irvine, California, where I rode out the pandemic. Love of San Miguel called to me and I now have two lovely homes, one in each city. 1st and 3rd quarters see me living and teaching in San Miguel and 2nd and 4th quarters sees me doing the same in Irvine!

Process, materiality and physicality is what speaks to me.
​I currently choose to work in both the cold wax/oil and 
​the encaustic paint mediums.

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Picture
"Ancha de San Antonio", above, was featured on the cover of the San Miguel de Allende Walking Guide.

Cold Wax

Pellets of beeswax are mixed with natural solvents to create a "mayonnaise-like" consistency. This cold wax is then mixed by the artist with pigments to achieve a cake frosting-type of consistency. It's fun, sensual and joyous!

The cold wax/oil paint process allows for more time to to explore, change and complete my message. Because its drying time is longer, I am allowed the freedom to try new techniques, to develop new directions. 

Encaustic

Encaustic is hot beeswax melted with resin and color pigments to form the paint. I apply many layers of the hot, molten paint on a wood support, fusing each layer to the underlying one with a torch or heat gun. This produces a painting that can never fade, since the colors are permanently locked in the wax/resin. Encaustic is fluid, which allows my message to subtly change as I'm creating it. The luminosity of the medium allows for a painting with many layers, evoking many stories and inviting touch. Viewers are much more involved with a painting that can be touched as well as visually enjoying the sensual experience of encaustic. Both encaustic and cold wax mediums take me on elaborate, colorful journeys.