Encaustic Abstractions Rooted in Geometry, Color Harmony & Modern Design
Hello, and welcome.
I’m a Boston- and Provincetown-based painter working in encaustic — a wax-based medium made from beeswax and damar resin. My work begins with simple geometric shapes and patterns that I grow slowly, dot by dot, using a heated wax stylus. It’s steady, meditative, and deeply satisfying.
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Before I ever pick up the wax stylus, each painting begins with a digital design. Adobe Illustrator is where I sketch circles, squares, arcs, repeat patterns, and test color palettes until something clicks.
Once the structure feels right, I print it onto thin rice paper and fuse it to a wood panel coated with clear encaustic medium. As I paint, the digital colors underneath become a foundation I respond to — a quiet conversation between design and intuition.
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When the panel is ready, everything shifts to the hands-on rhythm I love: dipping the heated stylus into a block of pigmented wax and placing one dot at a time across the surface.
Up close, thousands of dots create texture and movement; from across the room, geometry snaps back into focus. It’s that combination — structure and patience, design and touch — that keeps me returning to the wax again and again.
