“Mixed Media?” Sounds like a hard concept to grasp, but let’s break it down simply.

I’ll start with “mixed.” We all know what that means: putting a bunch of things together. If you cook, you’ve seen many recipes with mix this with that or use a high-speed mixer. If you see a group of people from different ethnicities, ages, genders, it’s a combination – or a mix- of different backgrounds.

So now I come to “media.” In the art world, media means the surface or ingredients used to create a work of art. Some of media included could be paper, canvas, metal, concrete, clay, glass, porcelain, fabric, wood. It also includes items like oil or acrylic paint, pencil, photography, wax, and many more.

So the term mixed is just that, a combination of different art media for artistic expression.

When I talk of my mixed media, I am combining oil paint, hot wax, photographic paper and/or canvas.

And this is important – each mixed media piece is an original. It’s a singular work of art that I have created.