Encaustic paintings
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 OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITION
July 6, 7 & 8, 2012
Nathan Philips Square, Toronto
Rain or Shine
www.torontooutdoorart.org
AGNES BUGERA GALLERY
August 18, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta
SHOW HOURS:
See Gallery web-site for hours.
www.agnesbugeragallery.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.