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DAWN CHURCH ARTS
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Acrylic Orginal samples
Encaustic Originals
Encaustic painting is an ancient art technique that uses a hard paint medium made of beeswax and damar tree resin - mixed with pigment. The medium needs to be melted for it to be workable. It must be applied in thin, quick layers, and each layer needs to fused into the surface with a high heat tool, like a blowtorch.
This process creates a juxtaposed composition that is both hard and fluid as the heat application causes the pigment to melt, swirl, and take on a life of it's own. Because each layer needs to be fused into the one beneath, the process creates luminous surfaces with rich texture and depth; encaustic paintings hold a sense of history and movement within the work itself.
These beautiful honeycomb shaped encaustic tiles are pretty, hot, messes. Abstract and super colorful, each is lovely on it's own or in a collaged, rainbow set.
About The Artist
Dawn Church is a dual-medium maker of pretty messes. Creating in acrylic and... negotiating with... encaustic paints, she explores concepts of perception and meaning-making, the wholeness of life and people, emotion and memory. Regardless of the subject, the composition is always a vibrant, colorful, and meaningful mess.
She is a self-taught impressionist, abstract expressionist style painter, and relies on unique techniques and tools that insist her vision be tempered with a surrender to the mediums’ natural flow - including embodied movements, her own breath, her fingers and nails, and by the nature of encaustic paint, fire.
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Her final pieces are visual representations of the balance between deliberate pursuit and surrender, and the beauty found when those work hand-in-hand.
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She hopes to invoke a sense of possibility in the spaces her work inhabits, reminding people that life is a mess, but it can be a beautiful one.