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    fine art and encaustic instruction
    bozeman, montana

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*photo credit Alyssa Henry Photography

My art portrays my passions for color and simple shapes. I bring my experiences while out in nature into my work, combining direct memories from photos and sketches with the emotional impressions left with me. 

I want to capture moments that can be easily overlooked if you are in a rush. These are the simple moments in time that make my world pause. These moments are what connect me to being, and insist that I inhale the fleeting scene with a sign of contentment.

My tendency is to choose colors and feeling over what  literal, giving my work a playful abstract quality. My colors are chosen intuitively, often not what the eye sees. I aim to capture the viewer with unusual colors and familiar feelings, giving a fresh new impression through which to view their simple moments in time. 

I choose to portray a sense of vibrancy and joy in my works, in contrast to many situations encountered during my career as a Registered Nurse, mostly in the Emergency Department.

Since studying  watercolor painting in a class in 1998 I have had a new focal point in my life of making and observing art.  I started in watercolor, drawn in by it’s fresh and fluid nature. I now paint mainly in oil and encaustic and depending on subject and mood (both me and the subject at hand). I am drawn to encaustic for it’s luscious presence, as well as the translucent and sculptural qualities.


Press:
Explore Big Sky, 2018
Bozeman Daily Chronicle-Get Out 2014

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