For twenty-five years, encaustic has been my painting medium. Experimentation with prepared wax mediums and cold wax emulsions preceded my long-standing love affair with molten beeswax, where what goes on under its translucent surfaces interests me as much as what happens on top. My paintings are constructed by pouring or painting with brushes to create multiple, often translucent layers that can be filled in, scraped down, carved, piled up, heated to a smooth as satin surface, or worked in a textural impasto approach. Process is paramount in implementing ideas that often balance my twin engines of interest in opposites…. organic, free-flowing imagery of the natural environment along with the grids, geometry and structure of the architectural, man-made world. The two co-exist and inform each other, eroded by time and the ravages of mankind.   Control in art is a myth, but I nonetheless try to establish some foundations of order to help guide me. My painting, still using encaustic, along with new elements of ink and paper,  has turned to exploring family history through memory, memorabilia and current technology where the past and present intersect, although my interest in simple geometries and natural imagery continues.