This was a very special series of encaustic paintings that were created for a solo show at Roman's Place immediately after the uprising. My attempt was to express pride, love, and hope for our city. Natural images and local icons are juxtaposed to invoke a sense of rebirth or new life. I was very proud to have sold nearly the entire collection. 100% of the proceeds from this project were donated to Baltimore youth services.

A solo show at The Creative Alliance 2016
This show spanned four seasons and described ephemeral moments of experience from each part of the year.  Ceramics, mixed media works, and encaustic works were included in this show. Photos of the encaustic paintings from 'Sit For Tea' are included in this project.

Devour was a solo show hosted by Charmed Life Art Gallery.  The work is a tongue in cheek exploration of food.  This figure draped over rowhouses represents the feeling of humidity in the air on a hot Summer's night.

This series is the continued exploration into capturing the ephemeral moment, preserving a memory. Art used as a curiosity cabinet or a journal of life experience.

"The moment you doubt you can fly you cease forever to be able to do it." J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

This series is about the human fantasy of flight and fascination with creatures that fly. 

Ephemera of the natural world. Ideas of beauty, nature, the passage of time. Humorous depictions of Earthly indulgences.

 The Aerial series are large watercolors painted using an aerial hammock. This series literally captures movement in the mark making process. On a larger scale and in an abstract manner these paintings also express the ephemeral.
 Here again the medium may change but echoes of the same ideas remain. Nostalgia, nature, memory and the idea of making a memorial of a transient moment.

The materials include: Recycled Paperclay, encaustic paint, lampwork glass and found objects.
This is the first Curiosus. I made this in 2012-13. Previous to this my artwork was typically functional pottery. In the past I have experimented with many ways to explore clay in a way that challenges the user to recognize pottery as art.
City living makes function and space a palpable premium. Baltimore City has many wall space opportunities for an artist. These necessities have led to multiple inventions of putting claywork on a wall. Over time, this led to the invention of my wall art series.
When I first conceived of this new direction for my work it was necessary to learn several techniques in order to achieve my vision. First online research on the formulations for paperclay. Many experiments were involved in creating a glaze that would appear to be lichen; membership in The Potter's Guild of Baltimore was a resource for glaze chemistry. I then attended a lampwork glassmaking class at CCBC. Finally a workshop on encaustic painting at School 33.
This first piece is a Curiosity Cabinet that holds a memory. The staggering beauty of a walk in the woods in Winter is most stunning because it is so transient-ultimately mortal. Lampwork glass icicles and red berries coated in 'ice' are also made of glass-impossible souvenirs from nature. Bones and shells are beautiful, but also reminders of mortality.
In the last four photos are of older works that demonstrate some of the permutations and ideas that developed into Curiosus.

This series of works tells the story of the journey from functional pottery, onto "Curiosity  Cabinets" and, finally encaustic painting work.
As a functional potter, my work was published twice and I became a member of The Potter's Guild of Baltimore.  This is my story of artistic evolution.

 These are some of the first works created using the encaustic process. This is the beginning of a total shift in medium.  The next series of works tell a story of a journey as an artist through ceramics and onto mixed media works. Even more recently, I have added aerial movement and large-scale watercolors.  The journey has always included a fascination with the opportunity art provides to memorialize a moment in time.