Joe is a professional fine art photographer and mixed media artist who in recent years has produced works using the photo-encaustic method. This complex technique, using Joe’s original photography as a base, calls for multiple layers of beeswax meticulously brushed over the image. Joe will often apply an additional image printed on fine tissue paper to produce a soft and often ethereal quality to the composition. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.

Joe’s inspiration may come from big city street life or, more often, rural scenes and the fleeting images of nature surrounding the northwestern Wisconsin woods, lakes and streams near Spooner, Wisconsin, where he maintains his home and studio. Prior to moving to Wisconsin, Joe maintained a studio and exhibited extensively in St. Paul, Minnesota.