Jude Lobe

Artist Statement

The idea of us not just being a part of nature, but connected in some way through a primal web of energy intrigues me and feels calming. It makes such sense to me. How else can one explain how we feel the same awe when watching a sunset, or feel anguish when we see someone in pain, or get teary-eyed at a wedding.

It's these recognizable but intangible feelings and emotions that I want to convey in my artworks. Sometimes they will take the shape of a familiar scene, other times they may be exhibited as an abstract. I consider myself a contemporary mixed media artist, working in cold wax, oil, encaustic, enamel, pottery and pottery with encaustic. My process is a method of building and deconstructing. I like mixing mediums and I love textures, which becomes a metaphor for how all things in the universe are interwoven and intertwined.