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Please stop by for refreshment during the 61st Annual Halifax Art Festival. Two days of fine art, crafts, music, dancing, food and pure fun.
HATFiELD’S HIDEAWAY located at Salon 230 : : 116 Magnolia Ave : : Downtown Daytona : live music : cold beer : frozé : wine
If you are interested in a painting in this series, please contact me at (386) 366-4877

Playing with Fire .. Hot Wax and my imagination

Julia Childs said “Every woman needs a blow torch.” I couldn’t agree more.

My series FRESH POLKA DOTS is a combination of whimsical images and digital enhancement mounted on oversized panels. The richness and natural luminosity of beeswax makes these large, bubbly paintings brightly expressive (or likewise, deeply muted and moody.)

My inspiration for this percolated, encaustic series originates with my iphone photos which I filter and manipulated until the desired effect is achieved.

Encaustic painting is a HOT topic in my imagination. The paint is heated on a hot palate and applied in its molten form, whether by brushing or pouring. It can be sculpted and manipulated in about 1001 different ways. It is always experimental.

Each layer of wax is fused with additional heat—BLOW TORCH or heat gun. It is both a painterly and sculptural medium; an inherently drippy, joyful process with unlimited possibilities. Finished paintings are virtually archival if properly applied and handled.

The giclee prints are output on heavy cotton rag watercolor paper, mounted on hand-built wood panels and enhanced by layers of encaustic medium.

(Handling encaustic with care and periodically polishing with a soft cloth removes dust and restoresthe surface luster. Floater frame recommended.)

Essentially, ENCAUSTIC refers to methods of fusing or burning in colors.

The unconventional process of encaustic dates back to first century Egypt and Rome, where beeswax paint was used extensively to render (and preserve) mummy burial portraits and in the decorative waterproofing of boat hulls. Jasper John’s playful american flag portraits from the 1950s reveal an astonishing hot mess of mixedmedia, old newspaper and wax paint.

The paint is used in its molten form, heated on a hot palate and can be brushed, poured and otherwise manipulated in 1001 ways. Each layer is fused with additional heat (blow torch or heat gun) and becomesvirtually archival if properly applied and handled.

Anne Kneller, Nov 2023