For years, I’ve explored how cloth and wax can hold stories—layered, stitched, torn, and rebuilt—reflecting the quiet tensions between tradition, transformation, and wildness. Teaching Cloth & Wax: Weaving Textiles & Encaustics has been an extension of that journey, and it brings me so much joy to share this space with you. Thank you for being here. I hope this becomes a place where you can slow down, reconnect with your hands, and find inspiration in the layered beauty of making.

ART COURSES

painting with fire

2024 - 2025 | Online Workshop offered through Essence of Mulranny

I am one of 27 faculty teaching in this year’s Painting With Fire online year-round workshop. I will be offering Finding Your Flow With Encaustic Monotypes and Binding Monotypes Books as part of this year’s 52 weeks of instruction. Classes delivered each Wednesday approximately 12 noon EST as prerecorded video and once they are available you can watch whenever you wish. Weekly classes are approximately 60 mins or longer. Work along, at your leisure or just watch, and jump in when you are ready.

Wax and Blooms: Exploring Botanicals in Encaustic Art

April 26th, 27th | Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY

Discover the magic of combining botanicals with encaustic techniques in this immersive, hands-on workshop. In Wax and Blooms, students will explore the creative possibilities of incorporating flora into encaustic works. Together, we’ll create cyanotypes and fuse your unique botanicals prints with encaustic wax. Incorporate dried flowers and foliage into wax layers for dimensional, textural compositions. Design floral collages combining ink, deco foil, papers, image transfers and other mixed media techniques. And make encaustic relief prints of foliage foraged around Woodstock.

Whether you’re new to encaustics or looking to deepen your practice, this workshop will inspire you to experiment and transform natural elements into beautiful, lasting creations. All materials are provided—just bring your curiosity and love for nature!

In-Person Studio Workshop, Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY