Lovers of dichotomy, delicacy and design are drawn to the work of self-taught encaustic artist and fine painter Tanya Kirouac. The images, drawn most often from nature, are at once real and dream-like. The luminosity of her wax, so elegantly and finely applied, becomes thick and rich with layering as it takes its final form as a rose, a cloud or field. A pause, captured. Meet Tanya...

TORONTO ARTIST PROJECT 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 7:00pm
until Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 6:00pm,
Queen Elizabeth Building, CNE, Toronto
SHOW HOURS:
Thursday: 7PM – 10PM
(Opening Night, 19+ Event)*
Friday: 12PM – 9PM
Saturday: 11AM – 9PM
Sunday: 11AM – 6PM
*A portion of Opening Night ticket sales will be donated to the Canadian Art Foundation.
www.theartistprojecttoronto.com

From the greek enkaustikos which means "to heat" or "to burn". Encaustic is the name for both, a medium of pigmented wax, and the process involving heat, by which the medium is applied and secured.

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