Shelly Hehenberger

In my work I use various techniques to combine wax pieces, cedar dust, resin, silica, cold wax medium, with oil paint on wood. I use many different, non-traditional tools for not only applying layers of my carefully selected mixtures, but also for scraping and carving down into the layers to reveal what is beneath. It is through this continuous additive and subtractive process that I create my surfaces slowly over the course of many months. I am especially inspired by direct observation of the processes of the natural world and how they relate to my own process in the way I work.