I have spent my life loving and creating art in one way or another. I work in a number of different media including oils, acrylics, watercolors, encaustics and printmaking. Most recently I am exploring the wonderful effects that using oils mixed with cold wax can produce. Working in a number of different media including oils, wax, collage, and printmaking, I create layers both literally and figuratively.  I’m using layers, sometimes as many as 8, of contrasting colors of oil paint and cold wax. The mixture of oil paint and cold wax medium is applied in sometimes thick and sometimes thin veils of color using squeegees or rollers which I then scratch with a variety of tools or dissolve with solvents and remove by rubbing or patting with crumpled tissue to create texture and reveal contrasting color.   Like many artists I seek to travel between the realms of external world and internal perception. My pieces are meditations on nature and self. My ideas are drawn from experiences to which I have an emotional connection over time, through my travels in South America, Mexico, Ireland and SW US and here in rural, upstate New York and the Adirondacks.