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Timothy McDowell

“McDowell's most recent work explores images and systems within nature. This imagery portrays nature in an expansive, all-inclusive manner, incorporating the scientific as well as the idyllic associations with nature and our world. He attempts to portray the excess...

Karen Freedman

The above painting is titled “Abacus:It doesn’t count”, and is encaustic on wood panel, 12”x12”. Karen says in her artists statement :”No matter how many alternate paths my work takes I always seem to return to order and repetition. These twin elements are with me as...

Mount Vernon Unitarian Church

I presented encaustic paint and the history of the Suffragettes as part of a Workhouse Arts Event with Julie Booth. This took place at the Mount Vernon Unitarian Church, which is at 1909 Windmill Lane  in Alexandria Virginia,at 1pm, with the Good Companions Group....

Gregory Wright

Gregory Wright paints “intuitively in  encaustic.(He ) is  inspired by topographical formations  and movement.”  His work strides the line between two dimensions and three, with  the wax projecting out of the work in some places, and staying flat in others. His latest...

Kim Bernard

Kim Bernard’s art captures movement and gestures. She compares it to “dance” and “whole body movement” with the result “being sumptuous abstract encaustic paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick layers of translucent and opaque...

Sandy O”Brien

Sandy O’Brien  is an artist who creates  encaustic and mixed media paintings, and who also creates altered books.  The work above is titled “XOXO Dress” and 12”x16”. It looks to me to be encaustic, with newspaper, fabric, photo transfer,string and button. The white...

Encaustic-How to Paint With Fire and Wax

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