Rocks I Have Known
portraits in encaustic wax
I’m a rock hound. My rocks accumulate and I seem to know where each one came from, who I was with when I found them, and why each one is important to me. Most are from lake Ontario, Maine, England, and Ireland. Some are arranged in small tributes, others are strewn about; when I come upon them I get the whole memory at a glance. The rocks in this series of small encaustic paintings are from the south shore of Lake Ontario. I’m curious about how they came to be with so many painterly features. I present them in this body of work as intimate rock portraits.
