Portraits

Encaustic art pieces using family photographs as a starting point. Commissions available upon request.

  • Elizabeth Contemplates the Future
  • Sulky Kathleen

    When I was a child, no one was tested for neurodiversity. I’m 60 today; too old now for any doctor to care if I’m on-spectrum. Perhaps I’m only excruciatingly introverted. 

    With that in mind, I’ve recently reevaluated some of my memories. I’ve always liked this photo, but I can now say this is not just a pouty girl in a toddler’s chair. My mother wrote “Sulky Kathleen” on the back of this picture, and it’s not inaccurate. It is, however, only one description of someone who’s been interrupted while thinking. I love this one-and-a-half year old who takes a mental deep dive into a women’s magazine with a smoking ad on the back cover.

  • Bubble Boy
  • Santa Baby
  • Venice, November 2000
    3″ x 3″ on wallboard
  • Guthrie and Tiantian
  • Venice box
    Made from a Dan the Sausageman box, this piece uses a print from our amazing six weeks living in Venice, Italy in 2000. I sanded the box, flipped the lid (Dan’s logo is still on the underside), and asked Eric to attach handles.
  • Avatar/Logo
    3″ diameter on wallboard. Green and brown, a little too shiny, and a dash of crispy. That’s totally me!
  • Halloween Mom and Dad
    3″ x 9.5″ on scrap lumber substrate
  • Nanny and Papa
    13″ x 8″ on masonite.
  • Stu and Sarah
  • Kon Tiki
    A compilation of memories from trips to Las Vegas and Tucson, including a wonderful live show with Bernadette Peters singing “Fever”.

    10″ x 4″ on a lumber scrap substrate.
  • Blu Gu
    6″ x 6″ prepared board
  • Nanny
    5″ x 2.5″ on lumber scrap substrate.
  • Mom
    10″ x 7.5″ on wallboard.