Page 4 - Creating Whimsical Characters

In 1996, I got the opportunity to work and live in Paris for six

months. Email was a fairly new means for communicating and I
used it to send a series of newsletters I entitled Emails From Paris. I

saved all of my email correspondences and my journal entries.
Twenty-two years later I published Emails From Paris, a digital

memoir/art book available on Apple Books.

In 2019, I had a solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of
Art that featured the twenty-nine encaustic paintings I included in

Emails From Paris. When the curator came for my first studio visit,
she got really excited about some sets I’d built for a digital project

and encouraged me to consider including a few sculptures in my
exhibition. I had a couple of gargoyle paintings in the show and

decided to do some gargoyle sculptures.

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