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This series of encaustic painting depicts cavern landscapes, imposing and textural, organic and expansive.  Julie is intrigued by the notion that something so magnificent in nature was formed millimeter by millimeter, carved away and rebuilt, over an enormous expanse of time.

This is a parallel relationship between how the artist works and the way that stalactites and stalagmites are formed.  Like the flowing water gathering up materials, and depositing them, drip by drip, layer by layer, slowly accumulating seemingly random color, she is also guided by natural forces, gradually forming the inevitable structures on her canvases.  She develops her canvas of waxes often using one color to produce the next, building upon the applied base color, adding and subtracting layers of pigmented wax to create her paintings.

She carves the wax to create movement, repetition, define shape or expose the surface material.  Oil stick is rubbed on the outer layer and is attracted to the voids filling the crevices with color, enhancing all the beautiful texture of the wax.