The Impossible Garden is a large four panel work in oil, charcoal and bees wax encaustic. This is a revisiting of a much larger trompe l’oeil work on four walls by an unknow artist, from a villa built in the late 1st Century for Cesare Augustus wife Livia. This original rendering of a Roman garden was designed to cool the senses in a semi-subterranean dining space during the heat of the Roman summer. What soon becomes apparent in looking at this original fresco are the inconsistencies: trees also blossom and fruit simultaneously, branches both bow to cooling breezes and are trapped in the hot stillness of a stifling summer afternoon.

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