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inspirations

I have pursued encaustics to create pieces that speak to a place that is somehow familiar and timeless. Transporting the viewer into the landscape is an inviting sense of depth, an image with a rich and layered surface that makes each seem affected by the passage of time. My work responds to the concept of refuge and prospect. Humans have a basic desire to seek out a secure and sheltered place, the refuge, looking out at a broad expanse, the prospect. I will sometimes incise lines at the edges of a work to further this sense of refuge, to create an architectural sense that the viewer is in a place, looking out.

None of my works are of any particular scene per se. They are inspired by images and views that I have seen and are meant to be more archetypal. I have a large collection of art books and oftentimes a small section of a painting, two colors working well together in the background, can inspire a work. The Renaissance painters, in particular, have fantastic background in their works, the colors, and light, as well as the patina of age.

The sensory pleasures of working with encaustics never cease to amaze me. First is the creation of the ground, crackled and irregular, subtly layered with color to bring out the imperfections and character of the surface. Then the studio is filled with the scent of the beeswax that is the main component of the encaustic medium. The wax medium is layered in color, in a subtractive more than additive process, to create the translucent depth of the surface. Finally, the surface is fused with heat, to “freeze” the image in time.

curriculum vitae

education

1987 Attended UW Rome Architecture Program

1988 Graduate University of Washington

         College of Architecture & Urban Planning

2001-2011 Owner/Principal – Flat Rock Productions

2011-2022 Owner/Principal - David Price Projects Building Design & Planning, retired

corporate collections 

UW Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA

Swedish Hospital, Issaquah, WA

Associates in Behavioral Health, Seattle, WA

Center for New Media, Langley, WA