Ross is an encaustic artist whose work is shaped by a deep love for pattern, geometry, and visual rhythm. Drawing inspiration from quilting traditions, textile logic, ethnographic forms, and elemental shapes found in the natural world, He creates layered compositions that sit comfortably between structure and improvisation.

His process begins with digital design, where he sketches circles, squares, arcs, and repeating motifs to explore balance, tension, and palette. That design is printed onto thin rice paper, fused to a panel coated with clear encaustic medium, and then developed dot by dot using a heated wax stylus. Up close, each piece reveals texture, movement, and thousands of deliberate marks; from across the room, the geometry and color take over.

A lifelong mixed-media maker, Ross has always been drawn to materials that invite touch—fabric, thread, paper, wax—and to techniques that reward patience and precision. He taught himself as he went, deepening his practice through workshops, conferences, and the generous guidance of other artists. That hybrid background continues to shape the work: part craft, part design, part meditation.

Today he splits his time between two creative homes:
• Artisans Asylum in Boston, a collaborative, energy-filled maker community
• His studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the quiet rhythm of the town fuels long stretches of focused work

Through rjostudio, he brings all of these threads together—pattern, geometry, texture, and process—to create contemporary encaustic paintings built one dot at a time.