Inspired by An Immense World, written by Ed Yong, the pieces in the Nature's Harmony series reflect on the complexity and interconnectedness of nature.
Waggle Dance
Encaustic on wood panel
24 x 24 inches
2024
For bees, the flower is the fountain of life. For flowers, the bee is the messenger of love.
~Khalil Gibran
Click here to learn how bees communicate with each other.
Floral Vision
Encaustic on wood panel
12 x 12 inches
2023
There are always flowers for those that want to see them.
~Henri Matisse
Click here to learn about the relationship between bees and flowers.
Engine Room II
Encaustic mixed media on wood panel
24 x 24 inches
2024
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
~Elizabeth Lawrence
Click here to see how bees impact the world.
Beauty’s Mirror
Encaustic mixed media on wood panel
40 x 40 inches
2024
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.
~St. Catherine of Siena
Click here to learn how flowers improve emotional health.
The Eyes of Others
Encaustic on wood panel
24 x 24 inches
2024
My own eyes are not enough for me…I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough…I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn face things to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.
~C.S. Lewis
Click here to find out what bees see.
Blue Air
Encaustic and metal on wood panel
24 x 18 inches
2023
My heart’s love
Bursts with hay and flowers.
I am a lake of blue air
In which my own appointed place
Field and valley
Stand reflected.
~Thomas Merton
Click here to learn how native plants are beneficial to wildlife.
100 Million Colors
Encaustic and reclaimed books on wood panel
18 x 24 inches
2024
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Click here to find out how birds can see 100 million colors.
Boundless
Encaustic mixed media on wood panel
24 x 32 inches
2024
Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird.
~Henri Nouwen
Click here to learn how birds use earth’s magnetic field.
Grace
Encaustic mixed media on wood panel
30 x 36 inches
2024
Grace finds beauty in everything.
~U2, Grace
Click here to learn the benefits of urban green spaces.
The Flow of Peace
Encaustic on wood panel
20 inches
2024
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.
~Frederick Buechner
Click here to learn how trees communicate through the air.
Eternal Roots
Encaustic and twine on wood panel
22 inches
2024
Eternity is a seed of fire,
Whose sudden roots break barriers
That keep my heart from being an abyss.
~Thomas Merton
Click here to learn how trees communicate through their roots.
The Circle of Life
Encaustic and beads on wood panel
24 inches
2024
For, like a grain of fire
Smouldering in the heart of every living essence
God plants His undivided power --
Buries His thought too vast for worlds
In seed and root and blade and flower,
Until, in the amazing light of April,
Surcharging the religious silence of the spring,
Creation finds the pressure of His everlasting secret
Too terrible to bear.
-Thomas Merton
Click here to learn how trees benefit our planet.
