Encaustic Arts Magazine Spring 2014 | Page 29

! ! Amber, Orange Cluster White, Paper, encaustic 14ā€ x 8ā€ x 14ā€ 2013 ! Iā€™m interested in creating work that documents various stages of transformation. Like many artists, my work has evolved over the years. I studied painting at San Francisco State University in the early nineties with Bay Area Photorealists Robert Bechtle and Richard Mclean. I loved doing figurative and landscape work and had success with most of that work I exhibited. I never thought I would deviate from painting and drawing, but during a two month artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson Vermont in 1995, I had a painting studio the first month, began exploring three-D work, and requested a sculpture studio the second month. ! ! ! !