Forest's Edge

Forest's Edge

Encaustic on cradleboard
12 × 24 inches
Framed in black shadowbox; or the option to have it unframed in wood and have the wax be the frame

Forest's Edge captures a moment of transition, where the density of the woods meets the open quiet of winter light. Snow-laden evergreens rise and overlap, their forms rendered through layered encaustic marks that retain the immediacy of drawing while building physical depth through wax.

Branches cut diagonally across the surface, interrupting the vertical rhythm of the trees and introducing a subtle sense of movement. The palette remains restrained, cool greens, muted blues, and soft whites, allowing texture and line to carry the work. A single roadside marker appears at the edge of the composition, grounding the scene in lived experience and hinting at passage, direction, and pause.

The encaustic surface holds both translucency and weight. Light plays across raised passages of wax, while shadow settles into recessed areas, giving the piece a sculptural presence that shifts as the viewer moves.

As a companion to Forest in Snow, Forest's Edge extends the winter landscape outward, from interior stillness toward the boundary between wilderness and human trace. It is a work about thresholds, quiet observation, and the moment just before movement resumes.