Island Life

The layered material, wax and oil, are painted onto raw wooden panels that I construct in my timber frame barn. I use the wood’s grain to map the figure to create an effect of human skin and background patterns. The combination of the delicate wood grain molded into skin and the layered wax and oil express a contemporary voice that depict a life defined by strength and delicacy while the simplicity of the raw forms affirms the vulnerable act of being human.