The past several years have brought many unanticipated challenges. For some time, I felt at a loss as to how to express my feelings and to address the situation in any meaningful way. A friend sent me an image of the back of a semi that she was following when driving in a blizzard, just trying to find her way and stay on the road. That image started me off on this series.
Additional Encaustic Series
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- Winter’s Forest #1
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- Winter’s Forest #2
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- Winter’s Forest #3
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- Winter’s Forest #4
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- I, Thou
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- Aspen #1
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- Yellowstone Bison
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- Summer Bison
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- Winter Bison
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- Bison
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- Bison Enter The World
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- Bison Enter The World #2
Encaustic – from the ancient Greek enkaustikos, which means to heat or to burn. Encaustic is the name for a medium, a pigmented wax, and a process. The process involves heating medium and wax and applying it to a ground. The inflexible ground must be somewhat porous to absorb the first layers of wax.
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- Give Us This Day
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- Bowls #1
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- Bowls #2
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- Bowls #3
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- Bowls #4
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- Bowls #5
Another approach, another thought.
From the time of Homer (800 B.C.) to the famous Fayum funerary portraits of Egypt (300 B.C.) to Diego Rivera and Arthur Dove to a major revival of the medium by Jasper Johns in the 1950’s, encaustic remains a durable, fascinating, and beautiful medium. In recent years, artists are discovering this medium yet again. It is being used traditionally and experimentally and offers a full range of technical and visual possibilities.