Lee 310 - Solitude
‘Solitude’ was created with a wood panel foundation upon which two different papers were added. Multiple pieces of bark from our dying ash trees were attached with many layers of encaustic medium. Wax oil sticks were used to add color. The ‘flowers’ from ornamental grass were then dipped into encaustic medium were added to complete the work.
Lee 309 - Mister Buck 2019
This work includes a photo of a European mount harvested this past
deer season the background of the work is encaustic gesso with pan pastels.
The photo was copied on handmade paper and embedded with many layers of encaustic medium.
Lee 308 Nature’s Storybook
Encaustic Mixed Media
‘Nature’s Storybook’ is a very complex work with numerous elements embedded into multiple layers of encaustic paint and encaustic medium. The elements are sand, leaves, cattails, grasses, pieces of burlap, ephemera, old postcards, paper, book pages and sheet music.
24” x 36”
2020
Lee 307 Earth, Forest and Sky
Encaustic Mixed Media
The simple beauty of handmade papers and encaustic medium are utilized to depict ‘Earth, Forest and Sky’.
244” x 48”
2020
Lee 306 Free Range
Encaustic Mixed Media
Chicken feathers scattered across the farm from our free range chickens, crimped oats and encaustic medium on a repurposed walnut board completes ‘Free Range’.
7 3/4” x 38”
2020
Lee 305 A Sun-Filled Cottage Garden
Encaustic
‘A Sun-Filled Cottage Garden’ was created with encaustic paint and encaustic medium on a wood panel.
18” x 20”
2020
Lee 304 Rocky Cliffs
Encaustic Mixed Media
Beauty springs from rocky cliffs with dried statice, and a snake has left its shed on the warm rocks. Stones, wall paper paste and encaustic paint and encaustic medium add texture and color to the work.
16” x 20”
2020
Lee 303 Waiting For Spring
Encaustic Mixed Medium
The seed pods for Jack in the Pulpit and Spanish Moss are embedded in encaustic paint with the addition of a touch of oil pigment sticks are all the comprise “Waiting For Spring”.
8” x 10”
2020
Lee 302 Simple Elegance - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A repurposed piece of walnut board serves as the foundation of this simple work. The walnut is covered in encaustic mediun and dried statice flowers and Spanish moss are dipped in the encaustic medium, for preservation, and then attached to the board.
9 3/4” x 22”
2019
Lee 301 Swamp Under a Winter Sky - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic gesso covers a wood panel and then India ink was applied with handmade brushes using leaves, bark covered wood, grasses and sticks to paint the background and the dying vegetation in the swamp. All was then covered with encaustic medium.
24” x 36”
2019
Lee 300 Cold and Frosty Night
Encaustic Mixed Media
Japanese paper is the foundation of this work, with many layers of encaustic mixed medium. A recycled brown paper bag that was torched, birch tree branches, and a piece of reclaimed bark complete the piece.
14” x 24”
2019
Lee 244 Angel Wings
Mixed Media
Embellishment mousse and textured paste are here on Russian birch wood.
14: x 15”
2018
Lee 241 Old Time Sampler
Encaustic Mixed Media
An old time sampler was the inspiration for this work. Dried leaves and flowers are embedded in encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
11 1/2” x 14 1/2”
2018
Lee 240 Dupl name w/ (302 which is sold) Simple Elegance
Encaustic Mixed Media
This work is elegant in the simplicity. Five fronds from ferns are embedded in encaustic medium with individual pieces of the fronds scattered about.
9” x 12”
2019
Lee 239 You Have Galls
Encaustic Mixed Media
This work has five galls from the Goldenrod plant. The gall flies create the galls to lay their eggs on the Goldenrod plants. The work also has sand covering encaustic medium on a wood panel with the addition of old rusty washers and braided repurposed twine.
10” x 10”
2019
Lee 238 Blowing in the Wind
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried alliums and wooden craft sticks are covered with encaustic medium and then painted with pan pastels.
10” x 13”
2018
Lee 237 (2) Leaf with Inks and Paper
Encaustic Mixed Media
Handmade paper is collaged and inked and then covered with many layers of encaustic medium.
“8” x 10”
2018
Lee 236 Night-time in the City Park
Encaustic Mixed Media
Handmade paper Is collaged with the addition of silver leaf. The work is then covered with many layers of encaustic medium.
20” x 24”
2019
Lee 235 (4)
Encaustic Mixed Media
This encaustic series features old metal stars of unique coloring on old barn boards. The boards are covered in coordinating, repurposed paper that is covered with encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
11” x 15” (4)
2018
Lee 234 At the Barn Door
Encaustic Mixed Media
My original watercolor of one of the farm’s roosters is embedded in encaustic medium.
12” x 15”
2018
Lee 233 Cutting Ash
Mixed Media
A rusty saw blade is the focal point of this piece. Dried young ash trees, textured paste, sawdust, and wood chips from a felled ash depicts the devastating loss of our great American Ash trees, due to the infestation of the emerald ash borer.
12” x 13 1/2”
2018
Lee 232 Autumn Home
Mixed Media
A Russian birch board displays autumn leaves which were created using textured paste, embellishment moose, and acrylic paint.
12” x 12”
2018
Lee 231 Nature’s Gifts
Mixed Media
Nature’s Gifts is a complex piece created on a birch panel and painted with acrylic paint. The work is framed with textured paste. Many “gifts from nature” are included here: the paper from a white faced hornets’ nest, dried ferns and leaves, seed pods from ferns, small sticks and stones, twine, mosses, fungi, and wire mesh. Tiny art stones and flower soft complete the piece.
12” x 12”
2018
Lee 230 Late Summer Grasses
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried ferns and grasses are added over hand-made paper from old blue jeans, all covered in encaustic medium.
18” x 24”
2019
Lee 229 Divided
Encaustic Mixed Media
Old, repurposed twine divides the bits for fraser fir pine-cones from the rest of this encaustic work. Encaustic paint and encaustic medium complete the piece.
9” x 11”
2018
Lee 228 - NEEDS PIC Poetry of Nature
Encaustic Mixed Media
This encaustic collage begins with a foundation of Japanese paper on a wood panel, with numerous poems about nature embedded in encaustic paint and encaustic medium. Maple tree seeds, leaves, Kozo fiber, dried shafts of wheat, and tree leaves are then embedded with encaustic medium.
18” x 24”
2019
Lee 226 Before Deer Season
Mixed Media
We all see great buck just before deer season opens, inspiring this work. The buck was created on a slab of cherry wood. The antlers are formed from textured paste, and his head was covered with hornet hive paper and then painted with acrylics. The background piece, depicting the woods, is a canvas covered with muslin fabric. The trees were created with muslin fabric which is covered with hornet hive paper and painted with acrylics.
18” x 36” 2018
Lee 225 Nature’s Hope
Encaustic Mixed Media
Three colors of Japanese paper cover a wood panel with encaustic medium. A single seed of a Japanese maple is attached with the hope that it will land and create the beginning of a new tree.
8” x 10”
2019
Lee 224 Tranquility
Encaustic Mixed Media
Brown and blue Japanese papers, a piece of bark, flower seed and the seed of a Japanese maple tree, covered in encaustic medium, create the simplicity of “Tranquility”.
5” x 10” - 2019
Lee 223 Simply Red
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried flower petals and leaves are embedded in encaustic medium to form this colorful background. Dried red carnations form the focal point of this vibrant red work.
11” x 14”
2019
Lee 222 Indian Motorcycle Repair Kit
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint and encaustic medium provide the foundation for this work. Paper, wire screening, old nuts, one old bolt, and rusty wrenches, with one bearing the Indian Motorcycle stamp make up this “repair kit”.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 221 Turkey Season
Mixed Media
Distress ink sprays on a hemlock board with collected wild turkey feathers create the focal point of “Turkey Season”. Canvas paper covered with Muslim fabric and the paper from a white faced hornets’ nest cover the tree in this woodland depiction. Acorns, seed pods, pieces of fungus, and moss embedded in textured paste create the forest floor.
10 3/4” x 20 1/2”
2018
Lee 220 Imagine
Encaustic Mixed Media
Imagine is the message on this encaustic piece, which has a wood panel covered with encaustic medium and a color burst background. Small pieces of wood wrapped with twine and small metal embellishments, plastic mesh, and a wooden “Imagine” quote finish the work.
8” x 10” - 2018
Lee 219 Red Hot
Encaustic Mixed Media
A reclaimed barn board from a friend’s unfortunate barn fire is covered with encaustic medium, with the addition of Queen Anne’s lace and oil pigment.
10” x 22”
2019
Lee 218 Unlock the Possibilities
Encaustic Mixed Media
A collection of antique brass door latches and an old key highlight this encaustic work on a wood panel.
8” x 10”
2019
Lee 217 Resilience
Encaustic Mixed Media
Heavily bodied wall texture spray paint was used on a wood panel to create texture. Encaustic paint was added and the Queen Anne’s lace and kozo fiber, covered with encaustic medium, completes this work.
16” x 20” - 2019
Lee 216 Golden Sunset
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint is the foundation with a piece of Japanese paper on top, adding texture. Queen Anne’s Lace, covered with encaustic medium completes “Golden Sunset”.
12 x 24
2018
Lee 213 Moonlight
Mixed Media
“Moonlight” incorporates the natural beauty of a reclaimed board. Beautiful simplicity is achieved by the application of India inks following the natural grain of the hemlock. The solitary tree is of black India ink.
8 1/2” x 20”
2018
Lee 212 Snow Falling on Birch
Encaustic Mixed Media
Snow flurries falling on branches of white birch depicts the beginning of a winter storm. Pulp netting wrap with a very open weave of natural abaca fiber wit pigmented handmade paper pulp blown into the textile serves as the background and encaustic medium and encaustic paint is layered and fused to cover the work.
20” x 24”
2019
Lee 209 Weaving on a White-washed Barn Board
Mixed Media
This unique weaving utilizes fabric scraps with the addition of lace, wire, bark, sticks, cording, ribbons, leather, and turkey and chicken feathers all on a slab of repurposed, white-washed barn board.
12” x 16”
2019
Lee 208 Weaving on Walnut
Mixed Media
This colorful weaving utilizes fabric scraps with the addition of lace, raffia, bark, sticks, cording, ribbons, and leather all on a finished walnut board.
11” x 19 1/4”
2019
Lee 206 Near the End
Encaustic Mixed Media
Japanese paper is covered with encaustic medium and then feathers, black sand, and small black stones are embedded in more encaustic medium. Lastly, reclaimed pieces of wood are attached. The work depicts the decaying debris in a woodland.
20” x 24”
2019
Lee 205 Dormant
Encaustic Mixed Media
Hand inked tissue papers make up the background on a wood panel. The fronds from ferns and dried grasses complete “Dormant” in the anticipation of spring.
20” x 24”
2019
Lee 203 Mom’s Treasures
Encaustic Mixed Media
This collage is made from a variety of papers, buttons from my mother’s vast collection, old knotted string, and a few pieces of dried Kozo fiber, all embedded with encaustic medium.
24” x 24”
2019
Lee 202 Fading Memories
Encaustic Mixed Media
A collage of a variety of paper, sheet music, an old photo, an old postcard, a page from an old book and one from a dictionary, a piece of a map and calendar compose the background. Dried flowers and a paper butterfly complete “Fading Memories”, all covered in an encaustic medium.
20” x 24”
2019
Lee 200 Night Lights
Encaustic Mixed Media
A large wooden panel was covered with encaustic medium and encaustic paint. The moon and stars are created with oil pigment sticks.
26” x 36”
2019
Lee 166 Cleaning Up the Farm Dump
Encaustic Mixed Media
A wood panel was covered with encaustic medium and painted with oil pigment sticks. Rusted metal and rusty old fence staples were salvaged when we cleaned up an old garbage dump on our farm and are now incorporated into this encaustic mixed media work. Recycled plastic mesh was melted with a torch into the encaustic medium and a few antique cut nails were added to complete this work in honor of “Cleaning Up the Farm Day”.
18” x 24” - 2019
Lee 165 Collision of Man and Nature
Encaustic Mixed Media
This work consists of salvaged part of a brake shield, the comb and paper from the hive of white faced hornets on a wood panel covered in encaustic medium and oil pigment sticks. I picked up the brake shield on my early morning walk one autumn day, ironically on Bendix Road outside of South Montrose, PA just past the sit of the former Bendix manufacturing plant. Researching the part number on the broken brake shield, it was manufactured by Bendix Corporation (not the South Montrose site) for a front axle for Ford, GM, and Chrysler in 1998 ….another amazing coincidence!
16” x 20”
2019
Lee 163 - Mistic Garden
Encaustic Gesso with oil pigment sticks and pan pastels
complete the background. The addition of dried allium and dried tulips
covered with multiple layers of encaustic medium completes ‘Mistic Garden’
Lee 162- Meadow Mist
Handmade paper forms the background of ‘meadow mist’ with dried flowers, covered with encaustic medium,.
Lee 158 Nature’s Garden - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A variety of real mosses covered the earth where dried flowers, leaves, and ferns spring forth. Encaustic medium and oil pigment sticks complete the garden.
18” x 24”
2019
Lee 152 Heart Dreams
Encaustic Mixed Media
A background of Japanese paper supports this work with the message portrayed by a quote. Heart Dreams incorporates two turkey feathers, a wooden heart covered with textured paste, a piece of birch bark and wood with brass wire, covered with encaustic medium.
12” x 24”
2019
Lee 151 As the Smoke Clears
Encaustic Mixed Media
A background of homemade paper with the addition of a reclaimed piece of wood from a local fire and the addition of canna pods complete this work.
18” x 24”
2019
Lee 148 Approaching Tornadoes
Encaustic Mixed Media
A complex encaustic mixed media work encompassing encaustic paint, encaustic medium, a birch tree branch, old repurposed wood, roofing screws, cheesecloth, packaging paper and a swath of fabric.
18” x 24”
2019
Lee 146 The Red Oak
Red oak leaves with small acorns were dried and then dipped in encaustic medium to create the focal point of this work. Japanese paper forms the foundation on a wood panel which is then covered with encaustic medium. The seeds of a pine cone are embedded into the medium and a piece of bark complete “The Red Oak”.
16” x 20”
2019
Lee 145 Under the Pine
Encaustic Mixed Media
This image was captured in my memory while on a woodland walk. The beauty of natural items that are covered in sunlight under an old pine tree is what is depicted here. A wood panel is covered with encaustic gesso and encaustic medium. Dried leaves, pine needles and stems, flower seeds, salvaged pieces of wood shavings, feathers, and a piece of bark from a birch tree comprise the work. Oil pigment sticks were used to add the “sunlight”.
18” x 24”
2019
Lee 143 Rooted in Song
Encaustic Mixed Media
An old piece of sheet music and a piece of a hanging plant’s root comprise this work which is finished with the addition of encaustic medium.
13” x 13”
2018
Lee 142 Burnished Brass
Mixed Media
Luxe paint covers a small wood panel, supporting a bronze plate covered with inks.
10” x 10”
2019
Lee 140 Floating on Autumn Air
Encaustic Mixed Media
Japanese Paper forms the background with a small sheet of handmade paper and two falling leaves floating on air, creating a simple work. All is encased in encaustic medium.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 134 Charred Remains
Encaustic Mixed Media
Two pieces of charred wood from a devastating fire at a local restaurant are the focal point in this work. Encaustic medium covers the wood and many sheets of ink stained tissue paper that were collaged together to form the background.
18” x 24”
2018
Lee 133 Mysterious
Encaustic Mixed Media
Japanese paper and handmade paper form the backgrounds of the work, with the addition of dried leaves and flower petals creating “Mysterious”.
9” x 11”
2018
Lee 129 A Childhood Memory
Encaustic Mixed Media
A family vacation to the beach is the inspiration of the encaustic work. Encaustic paint and medium, fishing net, sand, sea shells, starfish, and a sprinkling of dried, ground coffee capture this memory.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 128 Too Young
Mixed Media
This work pays tribute to a small, four point buck whose life ended too soon. Back India ink was painted on the antlers, and the shed is resting on a piece of birch bark and a very old, reclaimed piece of wood, also painted with India ink.
13” x 22 1/2”
Lee 124 Rebirth
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint and medium along with oil pigment sticks create the background. A piece of birch tree bark, giant foxtail grasses, yellow foxtail, and a found piece of wood are all utilized to complete “Rebirth”.
12” x ”24”
2018
Lee 123 The Final Resting Place
Encaustic Mixed Media
A brown paper bag from the grocery store has been torched to create the background for this work. A slab of Pennsylvania bluestone is the foundation of the work, with the addition of repurposed paper, the paper from a hornets’ hive, parts of the hornets’ hive comb, dried flowers and leaves, a piece of field corn, all creating the “Final Resting Place” for a buck’s skull.
12 1/2” x 23 1/2”
2018
Lee 113 Late Summer Grasses
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried grasses that have gone to seed, pastels, encaustic paint, encaustic medium, and the paper from a hornet hive complete this piece.
11” x 14“
2018
Lee 111 The Rock Ledge
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried plants and grasses, Japanese paper, the paper of a hornet hive are layered with encaustic paint and encaustic medium to create this ‘Rock Ledge’.
12” x 24”
2018
Lee 110 Super Moon
Encaustic Mixed Media
A large wood panel supports the “Super Moon” with a uniquely shaped piece of reclaimed veneer attached with black chain Dried flowers and plants with encaustic paint and medium complete the work.
24” x 36”
2018
Lee 109 The Old Fence Line
Encaustic Mixed Media
A piece of a birch tree limb, rusted barbed wire, asphalt shingles, dried ferns, and encaustic paint and medium depict a common sight on our old farm.
12” x 24”
2018
Lee 108 Home, High in the Tree - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint and encaustic medium, along with oil pigment sticks, are utilized here. The tree branches are painted with encaustic paint and the dried leaves and a reclaimed bird’s nest are embedded to finish this woodland home.
12” x 24”
2018
Lee 107 In The Hedgerow - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
This encaustic work depicts a very dense hedgerow on the farm. Japanese paper is the foundation with a multitude of dried grasses, ferns, mosses, bee hive paper, and tree branches. Flower seeds are sprinkled about ,and a saved bird’s nest also has seeds for egg and the birds are painted in encaustic paint. All is covered with encaustic medium.
24” x 36”
2018
Lee 106 Woodland Fairies (1) - 2 OUT OF 3 SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Love and Laugh are the messages in this series of three “Woodland Fairies”. Reclaimed barn boards from a decrepit barn when we bought our property were rescued years ago to serve as the foundations of this series. The smaller pieces of wood were provided by a friend and stained with inks. Repurposed paper was stained in coordinating colors while bark, dried ferns, dried flowers, and salvaged metal pieces were incorporated. The fairies are rusty metal, providing magic in the woodlot.
3 – 12” x 20 ½”
2018
Lee 105 Boxed
Encaustic Mixed Media
A re-purposed, old cigar box provides the support for this piece. Encaustic medium is poured over Japanese paper, and then dried canna, twine, and balsa wood are embedded into the medium.
1 ½” x 7 ½” x 9”
Lee 104 Among the White Rocks
Encaustic Mixed Media
Japanese paper, dried moss, birch tree branches, a hornet hive comb, and paper rocks all comprise this work with encaustic medium and oil pigment sticks.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 103 Harmony
Encaustic Mixed Media
Burlap fabric covering a wood panel provides the background for Harmony. Dried fern fronds, birch tree bark, and Spanish moss are supported by encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
6” x 8”
Lee 102 Soaking Up the Sun - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
This watercolor original, with dried flowers and Spanish moss, is in encaustic medium.
11 ½” x 14 ½”
Lee 98 The Evening Dance
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried plants and Spanish moss dance in the evening light. The “dance” incorporates encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
11” x 14”
Lee 97 Have a Heart - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A re-purposed metal heart is the focus of “Have a Heart.” The paper of a hornets’ hive and encaustic paint and encaustic medium complete the work.
9” x 12”
Lee 96 Joy
Encaustic Mixed Media
Joy is supported with a rustic wood panel. An original watercolor painting with distressed edges is covered with encaustic medium.
12” x 12”
Lee 95 Feathers - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Three feathers and multiple dried leaves are protected by being embedded into encaustic paint and then covered with encaustic medium.
11” x 18”
Lee 94 The Old Truck
Encaustic Mixed Media
A variety of papers and an ink stamped image of an old truck complete this encaustic work.
13” x 16”
Lee 93 Smiles
Mixed Media
A piece of true reclaimed barn board is the foundation of this mixed media piece. Stenciled poppies and the quote, “Smiles are proof of everyday miracles” are painted in acrylics.
11” 16”
Lee 92 Cleomes - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Here a photograph of late summer cleomes blossoming in the driveway was secured and preserved with encaustic medium.
8” x 10”
Lee 90 The Eagle
Mixed Media
A slab of reclaimed hemlock supports this work. Inks, acrylic paint and sand are utilized to display our national treasure, the bald eagle.
12” x 23”
2018
Lee 89 The Wasp’s Home - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A small hornet hive hangs from a birch tree in this encaustic work. Bark from a paper birch tree, paper from a hornets’ hive, birch twigs, and dried ferns are covered with encaustic paint, encaustic medium, and pigment sticks.
15” x 27”
Lee 88 Snake in the Grass
Encaustic Mixed Media
A snakeskin and comb from a hornets’ hive create the focus for this piece. The paper from the same hornets’ hive forms the background with dried leaves, grasses, moss, and bark embedded in encaustic medium.
20” x 24”
2018
Lee 87 The Farm Pond
Encaustic Mixed Media
This complex encaustic work incorporates stones, dried cattails, the paper from a hornet hive, burdocks, dried grasses, recycled paper, encaustic paint, and oil pigment sticks ... all used to create “The Farm Pond.”
20” x 24”
2018
Lee 86 Blacksnake Shed - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
The shed of a 57” blacksnake is the focal point of this work. The shed is embedded in encaustic paint and medium along with stones, coal, salvaged rusty metal and oil pigment sticks. The edges of the wood panel are covered with black, textured paste.
14” x 70”
2018
Lee 84 Nails and Burlap
Encaustic Mixed Media
Twine is wrapped around antique cut nails which are stitched on top of pieces of different colored burlap and coated in encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 83 Floating Balloon - Gifted
Encaustic Mixed Media
Braided rope forms the balloon while the tail is a single piece of the same rope. Sand is sprinkled into the encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
10” x 10”
Lee 79 A Basket of Poppies
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic medium covers a stenciled basket with stenciled flowers and with a vibrant watercolor background.
9” x 12 “
Lee 78 Fields of Lavender - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Two 6 x 6 panels support dried lavender and dried Spanish moss. Each panel has a watercolor background with encaustic medium.
2 panels 6” x 6” each
Lee 77 Sunflower - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint, encaustic medium, and gold leaf create the simplistic beauty of a ‘Sunflower’. 9” 12” 2018
Lee 76 Happy - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Happy dried flowers dance in a colorful world. Watercolor paper with color burst pigment, recycled paper, encaustic paint, and encaustic medium make this garden ‘happy’.
11” x 18”
Lee 75 The Eye of the Storm - Not Available
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint and encaustic medium with dried flowers on a watercolor-like background created with dried pigment comprise this work.
11” x 14”
Lee 74 Spring Garden
Encaustic Mixed Media
Natural, unpurified beeswax is enhanced with a great variety of dried flowers and leaves, all nestled into a bed of dried moss. A touch of white pigment stick is added.
8” x 10”
2018
Lee 73 Canna
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried canna pods highlight this work. Encaustic paint and medium with the addition of pigment sticks, plastic netting, and paper complete the work. The piece was gently burnt at the end.
9” x 11”
2018
Lee 72 Out of Stone
Encaustic Mixed Media
Pennsylvania bluestone is the foundation of this work. The paper from a hornets’ hive is embedded in encaustic medium with dried flowers flourishing “Out of Stone”. “Never Give Up” is an attached metal quote representing that no matter how hard life is... “Never Give Up”.
20” x 24”
2018
Lee 71 The Oak Leaf
Encaustic Mixed Media
Burlap, cotton fabric, hand stitching, wooden sticks wrapped with twine, and an ink-stained oak leaf on watercolor paper are sealed with encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
11” x 14”
Lee 70 Two Tiny Flowers
Encaustic Mixed Media
Two dried, red flowers and cotton string are embedded in encaustic paint and medium in this geometrically patterned work. The accretion technique is also utilized for the bottom section.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 69 Dandelions, Among the Flowers
Encaustic Mixed Media
A background of hornet hive paper, dried flowers, and encaustic medium are supported on a wood panel. 11” x 14”
Lee 68 Snowy Night - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Birch tree branches are covered with encaustic paint and encaustic medium creating the “Snowy Night”.
10”x 10”
2018
Lee 67 Sun Dappled Woodlot
Encaustic Mixed Media
Birch tree branches and were pressed into warm encaustic medium and then removed. Encaustic and oil pigment sticks complete the work.
9” x 10”
2018
Lee 66 Breakfast is Now Served
Encaustic Mixed Media
Scratch grain, chicken feathers, pieces of pine cone wait for ‘the girls’ on Japanese paper with the addition of encaustic medium.
9” x 11”
Lee 65 Pages From The Garden Book
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint and encaustic medium support the watercolor paper stained with India ink. Dried flowers are embedded into the “pages.”
9” x 11”
Lee 64 Spirits Ascending From Auschwitz - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
This work serves as a reminder of the horrendous atrocities of the Holocaust. The background of souls ascending is created with wool fibers. The fence is constructed with wire and antique cut nails. The prison, a sheet of rusted metal and a trio of knives from a farm mowing machine are on a wood panel with encaustic medium.
11” x 14”
Lee 63 Brighten Me Blue - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A variety of shades of blue, dried flowers are the focus of this encaustic work. Encaustic paint and encaustic medium with the addition of cotton string and flecks of white complete “Brighten Me Blue”.
10” x 10”
2018
Lee 61 Buttons, Balls and String - Not Available
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dyed wool fibers with buttons, wooden balls, and cotton string are embedded into encaustic medium and encaustic paint.
9” x 12”
Lee 60 Whirlwind - Not Available
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried flowers, paint chips, encaustic paint and encaustic medium complete this work.
8” x 10”
Lee 59 Floating Downstream
Encaustic Mixed Media
A wood panel covered with encaustic gesso supports a background of color burst pigments, dried leaves and dried grasses finished with encaustic medium.
9” x 12”
2018
Lee 57 Parched Earth
Encaustic Mixed Media
An encaustic panel supports pieces of fraser fir cones, encaustic paint, encaustic paint was applied using the accretion method.
9” x 11”
2018
Lee 56 Early Morning Light
Encaustic Mixed Media
The paper from a hornets’ hive, a leafed out branch, along with an eco-printed piece of silk are painted with encaustic paint and encaustic medium.
11” x 14”
Lee 55 The River Runs - Not Available
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint and encaustic medium are utilized to represent a river flowing through the rocky mountains.
11” x 18”
Lee 54 Washed Out - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A variety of twenty-one re-purposed, rusted flat washers highlight this work on a wood panel. Burlap, encaustic paint, encaustic medium, and pigment sticks complete ‘washed out’.
14” x 20”
Lee 53 Delightful Surprise
Encaustic Mixed Media
Bright red flowers are the focal of this meadow. Encaustic paint and medium with dried ferns and the paper of a hornets’ hive complete the piece.
8” x 10”
2018
Lee 51 The Loon - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
The Loon was created on a slab of old walnut following the natural grain of the existing wood. The bird was drawn with India ink and covered with encaustic medium. 8” x 32”
Lee 49 Starlight
Encaustic Mixed Media
A piece of reclaimed hemlock bark is the foundation of ”Starlight”. Encaustic paint was covered with shellac, then burned. The embedded metal stars make for a stargazing night.
12” x 22”
2018
Lee 48 The Golden Hour
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint, encaustic medium, dried grasses, and stones comprise ‘The Golden Hour’, created on a reclaimed slab of old walnut.
11” x 28”
Lee 47 Leather
Mixed Media
Masonite board is the foundation here with plaster, embedded objects, acrylic paint. This work resembles a piece of leather.
14 ½” x 17 ½”
Lee 46 Walking on a Dirt Road
Encaustic Mixed Media
Encaustic paint, chicken feathers, skeleton leaves, and flecks of gold foil are combined to create a walk down a rural dirt road in late fall.
11 ½” x 13 ½”
2018
Lee 45 Hope - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
This is my very first encaustic piece! It is a slab of cherry wood covered with walnut inks, dried ferns and hornet hive paper. The small stone expresses my new artistic journey that is filled with “HOPE”.
9” Circular
Lee 44 Composing
Encaustic Mixed Media
Three lost chicken feathers, a piece of old rope, a piece of salvaged wood, and a sheet of old music create this encaustic composition on an encaustic board.
10” x 12”
Lee 39 The Dream - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
A dream-like state of mind is created with dried flowers and leaves in encaustic paint and medium on a encaustic board.
Lee 37 Hot Air Balloon - SOLD
Mixed Media
Russian birch wood support corrugated cardboard, textured paste, tree bark, and acrylics.
12” x 24”
Lee 36 The Rose Garden - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Dried red rose buds are embedded in encaustic medium and encaustic paint on a wood panel.
6 ½” x 8”
Lee 33 Birch Trees
Encaustic Mixed Media
A variety of birch trees compose this work. The bark of a paper birch tree covers burlap. The white birch trees are created from paper and India inks. Dried stems of plants and encaustic paint and medium complete the piece.
11 ½” x 13 ½”
Lee 32 Autumn Storm - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
The paper from a hornet hive is the base of this encaustic work. Leaves, ferns, grasses, paper, and wood are embedded in encaustic medium, all on an encaustic board.
11” x 14”
Lee 31 Charred Woods
Encaustic Mixed Media
Burned wood glue and encaustic paint on a wood panel depict the aftermath of a woodlot fire.
11” x 14”
2018
Lee 30 Forest Fire
Encaustic Mixed Media
An approaching forest fire created from burnt wood glue and encaustic paints. Dried plants are embedded into the wax on an encaustic board.
9” x 12”
2018
Lee 29 Broken Lock
Encaustic Mixed Media
A collection of antique brass door latches and an old key highlight this encaustic work on a wood panel.
8” x 10”
Lee 28 Copper Mountain - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Sheets of copper screening are embedded in the encaustic medium, creating a range of mountains on a small wood panel. The sunset sky is of encaustic paints.
6” x 6”
Lee 27 My Monet - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
Tulips are blowing in a gentle breeze using encaustic paint on top of duck cloth and finished with encaustic medium.
8” x 10”
Lee 25 Serape
Encaustic Mixed Media
This Mexican blanket is encaustic medium on a reclaimed barn door of a goat barn. Each of the four panels utilizes a different encaustic technique. The top panel began with burned wood glue and India and distressed inks and encaustic medium. The second panel has a strip of wood-burned stars and stenciled spots from tree-pruning asphalt covered with encaustic medium and inks. Panel three is vertical strips of black sand, chicken feathers, inks, and encaustic medium. The fourth panel has horizontal strips of leather and string embedded in the encaustic medium and painted with inks.
22 ½” x 37 ½”
Lee 24 Brotherhood (not for sale)
Mixed Media
Rescued plywoods from a multi-generation family business are the foundation of this work. The wood of the front panel is naturally eroded by years of wear in the manufacturing of bulk fertilizers, creating a truly unique design. This grain of this face layer is running vertically, to signify the wood’s erosion that occurred during this long standing family business. The wood in the back panel, with the grain running horizontally, represents the strengths of the enduring business. Black India ink is used for the background, and cast iron corners complete the piece. “Brotherhood” is dedicated to the family members who committed hard work and strength to maintain a business, serving the community for over a hundred years.
29 x 30 ¾”
Lee 22 The Farmer of Johnson Pond
Mixed Media
This large work begins with a rescued wood panel from a renovation project in my home at Johnson Pond. The background is painted with acrylic with an addition of raffia. The farmer is constructed from reclaimed plywood which is covered in burlap. Then, Japanese paper covers the burlap and is stained with India inks. Wire-covered moss, an antique hay fork, and an old cast iron star complete the farmer.
24 ¾” x 56 ½”
2017
Lee 21 Lumbermen’s Flowers
Mixed Media
An antique buck saw is the frame of “Lumbermen’s Flowers.” A rescued piece of old plywood is coated in textured paste where antique cut nails and old tacks becoming the flowers. Sawdust, sand, and tiny art stones are embedded to add additional texture. The work is a tribute to all of the lumbermen who contributed to our Pennsylvania history.
27” x 33”
2017
Lee 20 Broken Heart
Mixed Media
This heart is cut from a reclaimed piece of hemlock and enhanced with distress spray stains. A variety of metal hearts are embedded in textured paste falling out of the “broken heart.”
6” x 7 ½”
2018
Lee 18 Petrified Leaves - Not Available
Mixed Media
A reclaimed slab of hemlock serves as the foundation for petrified leaves. Wooden leaves from my private stash adorn a background of hornet hive paper.
8 ¼” x 28 ¼”
Lee 15 The Grains of Time (not for sale)
Mixed Media
This, from an elevator in an old feed mill, is a reclaimed plywood piece that was scoured and eroded over many years by livestock grain.
9” x 12”
Lee 14 Butterfly Fields Forever
Mixed Media
Dried plants, coal, inks, textured paste, moss, hornet hive paper, wood and metal butterflies rest on a Russian birch wood. This piece represents a toxic world where butterflies are endangered. 12” x 24”
Lee 13 Scattered Garden Joys - SOLD
Mixed Media
A birch panel and several layers of textured pastes create the background of this natural garden. The garden consists of dried flowers and leaves of early fall. Flower seeds, ground coffee and cinnamon add additional texture to the piece while encaustic medium covers it to provide the preservative quality of beeswax.
12” x 24” 2017
Lee 12 The Last Run
Mixed Media
Embellishment mousse, dried ferns and leaves and the addition of a rabbit hide, all on a Russian birch wood.
12” x 24”
2017
Lee 11 Purple Allium - SOLD
Mixed Media
Dried allium flowers, stones, textured paste, and inks on wood.
12” x 12”
Lee 07 Remnants Of The Year - SOLD
Mixed Media
A reclaimed barn board is the base for dried plants, textured paste, flower seeds, wood chips, hornet hive paper, and a beehive comb.
11 ¼” x 20”
2017
Lee 06 Norway Maple - SOLD
Mixed Media
Norway Maple is set on a slab of reclaimed hemlock board painted with acrylic paints. Pieces of Fraser Fir pine cones, the seeds of a Norway maple, and the stems of an unknown plant make up this work. The pine cones of the Fraser Fir do not remain intact upon drying, and sometimes the pieces resemble flowers. These pine cones are embedded in a textured paste.
11” x 19 ¼”
Lee 05 The Visitor
Mixed Media
A night time visit of a small black bear captured on my trail camera is the focus of this work, completed on a reclaimed hemlock board. Acrylic paint, sand, seeds and wood chips complete the piece.
7 ¾” x 27”
2017
Lee 04 Silent Night - SOLD
Encaustic Mixed Media
The foundation of Silent Night is a piece of ash tree bark. Our great ash trees are succumbing to the emerald ash borer, and so far we have harvested 90 of the beautiful trees due to this attack. This work is one of my tributes to this magnificent tree’s going the way of the once great American Chestnut tree. The background of Silent Night is India ink with the addition of small stones, white sand, the ‘stems’ from Fraser Fir pine cones and raw wool fibers encased in encaustic medium.
6 ½ “ x 20 ½ “
Lee 03 Nature’s Collage
Mixed Media
This mixed media collage pays tribute to our whitetail deer. A shed antler, ferns, fungi, leaves, seed pods, loose flower seeds, moss, textured paste, and muslin fabric with hand stitching share space on a reclaimed hemlock board.
17 ¾” x 32”
Lee 02 Grand Canyon
Encaustic Mixed Media
Most of the wood that I use is salvaged from a friend’s small lumberyard. This encaustic mixed media work is created on a thin slab of a hemlock trunk. The encaustic medium is layered with stone, extra course sandpaper, and various colors of sand. Collected tree bark provides additional interest, and all is covered with encaustic medium.
8 ½ “ x 30”
2017
Lee 01 Young Buck
Mixed Media
In late winter or early spring, buck deer shed their antlers. This piece incorporates one such shed that I found while walking in our woodlot. The foundation of the work is a reclaimed hemlock board. This antler of a young buck is attached with coated wire. Dried ferns, India ink, and a black chain complete the piece.
7” x 15 ½”
2017
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