Bird
#4 2008,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 5" x 9"
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Bird
#4
2008,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 5" x 9"
(photographic reference not known)†
$300.00 US
Bird
#8
2009,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 5" x 9"
(photographic reference: Anna's Hummingbird by Bert
Katzung, used with permission, www.astronomyimages.com)
sold
Bird #2
2008,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 9" x 5"
(photographic reference not known)
$300.00 US
Nest #2
2009,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 4" x 4"
$175.00 US
Bird
#1 & Bird House ‡
2008, beeswax encaustic mixed media on birch panel, (in two parts), Bird: 5"
x 9" & Bird House: 2.5" x 4"
(photographic references not known)
sold
Bird
#5
2008,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 9" x 5"
(photographic reference: Boreal owl, aegolis funereus,
by Steven Katovich, USDA Forest Service, used with permission, image # 1388020,
www.Bugwood.org)
sold
Nest
#1
2008, beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 5" x 9"
(photographic reference not known)
sold
Bee
#1
2008,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 9" x 5"
$300.00 US
Birds #7 2009, beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 14" x 11"
(red cardinals in flight, reference photographs by R.W. Scott, www.gregscott.com; used with permission)
$600.00 US, framed by David Fallis
***NOW SHOWING, with Nest
#4, in "For the Birds" at Plaza
Arts, Healdsburg, Ca May 12 to June 6, 2010***
Bee
#2
2000,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 9" x 5"
$300.00 US
Bees
#3
2008,beeswax encaustic, oil, mixed media on panel, 5" x 9"
$300.00 US
When our new garden filled with occupants and visitors, I began the Garden Variety series. These mixed media works incorporate layers of decorative Italian or Japanese origami papers (much like wallpaper, suggesting an element of the indoors) under layers of wax encaustic on wood panels. I then paint the images in oil. Since learning of our global loss of honey bees (Colony Collapse Disorder) and other critical animal species, I have depicted disappearing tree branches, empty or ephemeral nests, thickets, holes in tree trunks, altered honeycomb, and faded bird houses, to convey an increasing fragility of wild habitats.
I am continuing the Garden Variety series. As time allows, I will continue to upload new images onto this page, so I hope you will return.
† I always appreciate assistance identifying any photographic references!
‡ Note: The miniature bird house at the bottom of "Bird #1 & Bird House" was a cardboard crafters' multiple. I covered it with gold leaf and bird feathers, given to me by my bird-keeping neighbor, plus words I associated with domesticity, which I'd cut out of newspapers. I placed two real, unfertilized finch eggs (from the same neighbor) inside its tiny doorway. These are nested into a soft dog-hair and dryer-lint bedding, and held there by a small screen of gauze ribbon.
The feathers in Nest#2 and Nest#4 are real, found near an abandoned nest.
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