Profile

I am an award-winning fine art photographer and encaustic artist based in Columbus, Ohio. After a career of teaching art, I began experimenting with photography and came to specialize in painting-with-light. From night landscapes to still life’s in my dark studio, the common elements are off-camera lights and extremely long exposures. I invented techniques for adding virtual shapes, lines, and colors to photographs.

I still experiment today but I have added painting with encaustics to my repertoire of art tools. In that medium I initially made smooth photo encaustics but soon began building encaustic layers that extended above the surface. After some experimentation, I discovered that I could build and form with paper then dip many times in encaustic medium to create high reliefs. My encaustic work now includes a wide range of techniques and topics.

Both painting-with-light photography and painting with encaustics are complex, time-consuming, and difficult but it is the challenge of these media that fuels my creative spirit.