Painting and history merge in my work
I started my shop to share my art that has filled my heart and my life for the past 45 years. I have always wanted to be and believed that I am an artist at heart. I do other things I enjoy, like working in my vintage shop and my old photo shops on Etsy but really what I do for myself is my art. I have always loved painting, my father too is a painter and it seems art is in the family as my younger daughter is also an artist and designer. For the first 30 years my art revolved around watercolors, oils, and gouache and then I saw an Encaustic painting on a trip to Mexico and fell in love with the medium immediately. So, for the past 10 years I have daily worked on my encaustic beeswax paintings. I am self taught. Once I discovered encaustic, all my other mediums were almost lonely from not using them. My latest series is from retro cookbooks and the theme is both colorful and reminds me of when I was younger and would cook from my Betty Crocker cookbooks with all the vibrant and beautiful art and photos of cakes and pies. The encaustic paintings also have a wonderful 3D appeal as well as a nice smell.
I hope that you will enjoy my art as much as I do making it.
