Showing posts with label encaustic wax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label encaustic wax. Show all posts

Thursday, April 14, 2016

BEAUTY: Art--Alicia Tormey

Artist Alicia Tormey uses encaustic wax with various other mediums (paint, ink, shellac) to produce near-abstract botanicals.


But what really catches my attention is how she has translated her two dimensional paintings into three dimensional objects using the same materials. These "Specimens" as she calls them look like delicate, prehistoric water plants or mold and lichens...in glorious colors. I also love how they are pinned, as though they are specimens in a Victorian botanical vitrine.




http://www.aliciatormey.com/

Monday, May 21, 2012

BEAUTY: Painting--Matt Duffin

Matt Duffin's encaustic wax paintings are atmospheric, creepy, and transfixing. Lone toys stranded in darkened rooms speaks to a David-Lynchian unease, and a dissolution of the innocence of childhood. On a more immediate level, I get the sense that a child has ventured into one of these rooms, but will not be coming out...


Top to bottom: Apparition; Backpedal; Ducking Out; untitled; untitled

http://mattduffinfineart.com/