Over the past 15 years I have been working predominantly in encaustic and or cold wax, while also using tar, ash, marble dust, pigment sticks, dry materials, graphite, rubber, handmade paper and miscellaneous mediums. My work explores the ritual of layering. I love the sense of the unexpected, the sensation of scent, and the anticipation evoked by moving wax, while I also do a lot of scraping and carving into the wax. Marrying image and medium is what I am most interested in. My work is redolent of the meeting of sky, sand and sea: a sense of place. Houses, boats & flowers like tulips and amaryllis are regular themes of my work as well and most recently dogs and hearts. This past year 2020 has been a difficult year all around with the loss of my partner, my father and then a world wide pandemic. I was happy that through it all I kept painting and making work. Some will never see the light of day and many others are from this new series: Collected Memories
Cherie has her MFA from Purchase College at the State University of New York, and her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She’s the Executive Artistic Director of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill since 2002. She is the director of the 13th International Encaustic Conference that takes place in Provincetown each year in June. She serves on the board of Provincetown Cultural Council, Campus Provincetown, Outer Cape Artist Resident Coalition (OCARC) and partners with Highland Center, Inc. for the only wood-fired kiln on Cape Cod. Her work is represented by Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown.