Artist Statement
Cardboard is an ideal substrate for encaustic artwork, it is light-weight, absorbent, and rigid. It can be cut and glued together to create substrates of any size. It is also free when rescued from recycling bins. A rigid cardboard substrate creates a textured surface that isn’t as fragile as some of my accretion works. I deliberately chose to highlight the tactile qualities of the surface by limiting the use of colour directing the viewer’s focus to the physicality of the paint. The texture formed on the honeycomb cardboard echos that of the wax on the wood from a beehive frame.
