Plants +
Photography +
Paper +
Wax =
Botanical Encaustic
delicate flowers
lightly floating day and night
sunshine garden glow
– Chinese Lantern
My delicate encaustic paintings feature botanical images from my garden. The finished works are a perfect blending of my passion for gardening and photography. The works are created with an encaustic wax technique that involves layering photographs printed on rice paper between thin layers of wax.
Each work is captioned with a haiku, using the 5, 7, 5 rhythm. Haiku works very well with nature imagery allowing one to capture a brief moment in time with very few words.
