This exhibition is comprised of work created over 20 years and includes pieces from a variety of series, including the Geometry Series, Lucent Fruit, work inspired by the Costa Rican Mot Mot bird, the Lichen series, Contemporary Mosaics, Horizon Line, and Having a Ball. While many of these works are mixed media, all have one medium in common: Encaustic paint.
Encaustic paint is made from refined beeswax, damar resin (tree sap), and pigment. The medium is thousands of years old and was first discovered on ancient Egyptian sarcophagi (mummified remains in burial tombs). Encaustic painting techniques were revived by Jasper Johns in the 1960s, and had another revival in the last 20 years.
I love the medium for so many reasons: the paint uses all-natural, non-toxic ingredients, it’s translucence, it’s forgiving nature, and for the many ways you can use it- on its own, combined with other elements, and for the ability to create dimension and texture like no other medium.
The work in this show demonstrates many of the ways that Encaustic can be used to create art.