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Archived work ( please contact for availability)
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Lichen
(Sumburgh Head) beeswax, aluminum pigment on found panel 6x30in. 2016 details on right full image on left 200 Turn
encaustic / aluminum on panel 14 x18in, 2016 350 Shetland 24 (Annes sheep) photo by Anne Mcdonald encaustic on found panel 6x14in, 2016 sold |
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tirrick
encaustic on found panel 5x14in, 2015 110 |
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Annes sparrow
encaustc and photo on found panel photo by Anne Mcdonald 6x15in, 2015 private collection Brave heart encaustic on panel 14x24in 2015 sold |
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Scalloway walk 4 encaustic on found panel
4x12in 2015 |
The shetland pony 8x10in 2015
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Shetland encaustic on found panel 5x30in 2015.
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Scalloway walk 5, encaustic on found panel, 4x12in, 2015
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Protect (2015)
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Beautiful Vagabond, encaustic on found panel, 4x10in 2015, sold
Taking flight please be All Right
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July
a summer day encaustic mixed media on panel 8 1/2 x11in. 2014 sold |
taking flight is not a given all though not always right all is not lost
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June
a summer day oil/ cold wax on canvas 8x10in,2014 |
I watched you Taking Flight hoping for a full circle and a safe landing
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June
a summer day oil / cold wax on canvas 16x8in, 2014 available |
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June
a summer day encaustic on panel 12x30in,2014 available |
Garden
Many of our gardens are grown from shared seeds, planting memories of time and place. Presented are small layered panels-approx. 4x13in.Each surface is layered with molten beeswax, then embedded with seeds and their packets. 'Burning in' with natural beeswax preserves them forever.
price range: 120-190.
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Milkweed
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February
homecoming encaustic, milkweed, goldenrod pod and copper on found panel 12in round, 2014 
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Anonymous as cherubs Over the crib of God, White seeds are floating Out of my burst pod. What power had I Before I learned to yield? Shatter me, great wind: I shall possess the field. Richard Wilbur
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January encaustic/ milkweed on panel 10x12in 2014 |
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… Thus, we sit, myself thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! how rich it is to love the world.
Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face.
As though I were just as wonderful as the perfect moon.
Mary Oliver
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dog songs song dogs encaustic on panel 8x11in, 2013 |
The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. And yet the world, In its distress, Displays a certain Loveliness.
- John Updike, A Child's Calendar
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It's all right to fall encaustic mixed media on panel 12x48in. 2013 700. purchase here. November Fall encaustic mixed media 9x12in, 2013 140. purchase here. |
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November
encaustic on panel 6x14in, 2013 sold |
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Fall encaustic on panel 8x10in, 2013 170. sold |
Sway, encaustic on panel, 2x4x14in, 2013, 170.
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June encaustic on panel 6x14in, 2013 170. sold |
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May encaustic on panel 6x26in, 2013 270. purchase April Flutter encaustic mixed media on panel 6x30in, 2013 sold |
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April, waiting for May encaustic on panel 16x20in, 2013 available |
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In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole. Mark Strand Keeping Things Whole Further a Field encaustic on canvas 11x14in, 2013 available |
protect
The artwork below represents winter where I live on the Niagara escarpment. There are coyotes up here, and although I rarely see them, I hear them at night and it is a privilege. While working on this I was thinking about urbanization and whether we will ever live harmoniously with the natural world.
Beautiful Vagabond, encaustic on found panel 6x16in 2013, sold.
murmuration
Murmuration, encaustic on box, 6x4x11in, 2012, available
winter
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On winter’s margin, see the small birds now With half-forged memories come flocking home To gardens famous for their charity. The green globe’s broken; vines like tangled veins Hang at the entrance to the silent wood. With half a loaf, I am the prince of crumbs; By snow’s down, the birds amassed will sing Like children for their sire to walk abroad! But what I love, is the gray stubborn hawk Who floats alone beyond the frozen vines; And what I dream of are the patient deer Who stand on legs like reeds and drink that wind; - They are what saves the world: who choose to grow Thin to a starting point beyond this squalor. Mary Oliver Winter's Margin Winter 6x10in, 2013 sold |
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Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, hearing the same tune no matter where you find yourself -- inside the dome of dark or under the cracking white of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down under the small fire of winter stars. And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you find yourself where you will be at the end, tell yourself in that final flowing of cold through your limbs that you love what you are. Mark Strand Lines for Winter Winter 2, 6x12in, 2013, 190. |
Inverurie Horses
Epona and Macha are Celtic horse Goddesses who watch over the land, protecting its abundance and insuring a good harvest. As protectors of nature, they grant sovereignty over the land and are the goddesses of the stable, protecting all who work with horses. They guide and protect.
Embedded deeper into the wax is the Inverurie Horses" symbol-a design created by George Bain, inspired by a Pictish image of a horse he found carved into a stone in Inverurie, Scotland. It too is thought to represent the three "Great Horse" goddesses of Celtic mythology: "Epona" (Gaulish), "Macha" (Irish), and "Rhiannon" Welsh.
Spirals represent the journey of soul from the sacred vortex uncoiling outward to fill the universe, then returning to the balanced center. Spirals are a natural pattern found in wind and water currents, trees, shells, and seeds and express the unfolding of the earth’s energies and the expansion of the universe. Throughout the layering process I intermittently added powdered aluminum pigment and although the digital image does not show, light moves continuously through the work.
voyager 2, encaustic on panel, 8x12in, 2012, sold
Voices of the Air
little voices of the air, encaustic etc on box, 6x10in, sold
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But then there comes that moment rare
When, for no cause that I can find, Sound above all the sea and wind. The sea and wind do then obey And sighing, sighing double notes Of double basses, content to play A droning chord for the little throats— The little throats that sing and rise Up into the light with lovely ease And a kind of magical, sweet surprise To hear and know themselves for these— For these little voices: the bee, the fly, The leaf that taps, the pod that breaks, The breeze on the grass-tops bending by, The shrill quick sound that the insect makes. Voices of the Air By Katherine Mansfield |
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Quiet Conversations
Quiet conversations,encaustic on box, 6x10in, sold
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