Gallery > The Line is the Canon

Here's the thing about the cutouts. Everything the jigsaw does is like a line that can't ever be erased. It's the given, the canon. The paint has to answer to it.

A shape in my head becomes a sketch, becomes a plywood cutout, becomes a photograph, becomes a more precise sketch, printed out, for plotting the painting - which sometimes takes a few thoughtful days before I pounce. Gazing at the beautiful shape. The paint - its colours, how it is applied, how its expression responds to the shape, is the project.

Haiku
encaustic on wood
12" x 32"
2017
Cosmo
encaustic on wood
33" x 33"
2018
$2800
Picaresque
encaustic on wood
11" x 27"
2019
$1050
Waypoint
encaustic on wood
19" x 19"
2021
$1400
Counterpoint
encaustic on wood
15" x 29"
2021
$1500
Trochee
encaustic on wood
12" x 30"
2019
$1300

From the games to the ghosts to the present, the game is about conversation, argument, rule, misrule, negotiation, reaction, decision, arrival.