Artists often find new ways to organize and represent the world. My creative endeavors began with textiles and fibers, and it is this experience which inspired me to adapt the textile dyeing technique, batik, into painting on reclaimed wood--a process I call wapik. Wax and acrylic paint are applied and removed in a series of steps. First, there is an acrylic underpainting, which is then topped with a different wax painting, followed by final coat of acrylic paint. Once the final coat of paint is dry, the wax (along with the final layer of paint atop it) is scraped off.

This technique involves numerous possibilities, involving colors and designs of the underpainting, the wax, and the color combinations involved in the final layer. This process is indicative of my focus on abstract art to stimulate new ways of thinking and connecting.

This creation is the first completed piece using wapik.

ITS POSSIBLE

27x48 inches

sold to a private collection