by julia dzikiewicz | Nov 7, 2009 | blog
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...
by julia dzikiewicz | Nov 6, 2009 | blog
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...
by julia dzikiewicz | Nov 4, 2009 | blog
Heather Hutchinson is a talented New York artist who paints encaustic on plexiglass. The above painting, titled “getting there” illuminates the many possibilities of color, abstraction, and encaustic. I love how this piece blends so many colors, as softly as a lamb...
by julia dzikiewicz | Nov 2, 2009 | blog
The art above is from a series by Shawna Moore called “Prayer Flags”, and each 20”x20”work is painted with encaustic on panel. The title of the series refers to Buddist prayer flags. These flags typically hang in a line to be blown in the wind, and are thought to ...
by julia dzikiewicz | Nov 1, 2009 | blog
Hsi Mei Yates paints Chinese watercolors of plants, fish , birds, butterflies and bugs. She says “My inspiration is Mother Nature and her beautiful birds, fish, insects and landscapes”. She also has a studio in Building 5 at the Workhouse Center for the Arts, which...
by julia dzikiewicz | Oct 31, 2009 | blog
Trish Vermillion paints on ceramic or glass with porcelain paints, and also creates glass ornaments, glass bowls and platters. “She strives to create artwork that provokes a unique sensory and emotional experience with each and every encounter”. The painting above, is...