Some documentation of the process of cleaning & restoring my only painting that survived the flooding in the River Arts District.
Thanks to the waterproof nature of the encaustic medium I use to collage my work, this piece survived relatively unharmed. Saving it involved separating the thinner substrate layer and adhering it to a new panel. After some light cleaning I applied a fresh layer of encaustic, sealing in all the wonderful texture and color it was left with from its journey.
The restored painting and matching piece that was unaffected have been sold as a pair to local collectors, and I’m so glad they’re staying together as a record of the effects of Helene.
Detail photos of the piece I posted the process of making yesterday. This work includes five sculptural elements, with the intention of encouraging interaction and play- the owner can rearrange the objects or even add their own to fit their mood. I titled this one “First Universe” after this quote from Gaston Bachelard in Poetics of Space: “Our house is our corner of the world. As has often been said, it is our first universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the word.”
This piece is sold ✨
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Ten new 10x10 paintings. Most of these sold at @theotherartfair last weekend, but the last two will be available at my studio this weekend during @weavervilleartsafari ✨
This piece, made mostly with material salvaged from Hominy Creek and the RAD, will be up for grabs via raffle this Thursday 4/16 4-9PM @cellarestbeerproject
There are a bunch of other wonderful prizes, and all $ raised goes to the continued restoration & maintenance of the Hominy Creek Greenway. Drop by for a brew and support these great folks stewarding one of our natural spaces 🌱🍻✨
Another new Riso print edition! Really happy with how this one came out. A wonderfully textured assortment of friendly creatures on speckled archival paper.
As usual this is a limited hand signed edition, and will never be reproduced.
If you’d like to take these creatures home, follow the shop link in my bio, or come visit me at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, April 16-19th ✨
Excited to share that I’ll be joining the 17th edition of @theotherartfair in Brooklyn this April! It’s been a while since I’ve done a fair in NYC, can’t wait to be back 🏙️🥂✨
New (ish) print available! Finally added this one to my shop. This original Risograph print, an edition of 75, uses imagery from a painting that was lost to flooding during hurricane Helene, pictured at the end. All prints hand signed and numbered.
For any hardcore print collectors out there, I’ve also put up a full set of the #1 prints from every Riso edition I’ve done to date. All of these but the newest are sold out!
‘Low Orbit Transmission’
36 x 60”
I didn’t think I would finish multiple large scale pieces this year while chasing a tiny human around, but here we are! Come see all the texture and detail in person at my studio this Sat & Sun during @weavervilleartsafari ✨🥂
If you’ve dropped by Character Study in the past few days, you probably noticed some new art above the cozy lounge across from the bar.
After many late nights in the studio over the last few months, I’m excited have this massive piece completed and hanging in this wonderful space.
The imagery in ‘Ex Libris’ is, in keeping with the literary theme of Character Study, inspired by several books that had a meaningful impact on me at different points in my life. From left to right: The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett, Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, and The Shining by Stephen King.
Come visit and enjoy a delicious cocktail in the glow 🥂
‘Ex Libris’
Watercolor, acrylic, salvaged wood, light
5’ x 6’, 2025
I first sketched the idea for this piece two months after hurricane Helene wrought overwhelming destruction on our corner of Western North Carolina. At that point, we were only just a couple weeks into finally having power, water and reliable cell service restored.
I was reflecting on the first few days and weeks after the storm, attempts to get beyond even the end of our street met with road after road blocked by fallen trees and power lines. How we began to find nearby friends, and network by word of mouth and notes left on doors to get the resources we needed. Our little Margot was barely 4 months old.
In retrospect, it was incredible how quickly we were able to establish support networks. From the first few days of being terrified we wouldn’t be able to get fresh water for baby formula, to seeing communities like the Beech center on Reems Creek feed folks three meals a day, backyard hose showers built and shared, and the immediate effort to salvage and clean the River Arts District.
This piece uses and is inspired by the concept of “hobo signs”, a system ostensibly used historically by the transient and unhoused to communicate with each other. A very apropos Idea following disaster, of a way to communicate needs and dangers in a time when normal communication was impossible.
Anyways, art making has been slow this past year as a new dad, especially when it comes to pieces this large (Margot for scale in the second slide), so it feels great to finally have this piece out of my brain and into the world.
‘Flood Map’
49.5 x 49.5”
Encaustic, paper, mud, oil stick
2025
