beyond time

"No one else but you can make your marks. Listen to your bones. Speak with your spirit. Edit with your head. Live with your heart." ~S.Holland



beyond time
encaustic and mixed media
9x12 inches


I came across the above quote from a tweet by Deborah Colter and just loved it. Part of it is that it speaks to what I have been trying to follow this past year and what I will continue to follow in 2010.

This painting has been through many transformations. I actually painted an oil and mixed media painting on the wood back in 2007. I think in 2008 I covered the painting in clear encaustic medium. And then I kind of left it alone. I came back to it in late 2009 when I was going through old paintings and canvases that I wanted to either repaint or finally use. And I began painting it, little by little with encaustics. Letting it develop organically, not rushing it, not really sure where I wanted it to go. Wanting to maintain some of the old bones of the oil painting beneath the wax. (It actually used to be a horizontal landscape painting!)

I finished it last week, my actual first painting created in 2010.