There is a magical quality to beeswax. It reflects light, glowing from within, and the smell of beeswax in the studio is a lovely experience. Using fire and heat to manipulate the medium is challenging yet this is what makes encaustic so alluring to work with! Working hot and cold versus wet and dry creates a shift in mindset from traditional methods of painting and printmaking.
I create art to process my thoughts and feelings about the physical and spiritual world. Abstraction is used to express sensory perceptions in the natural world like texture, sound, landscape, and diverse cultural experiences. It can also embody supernatural dreams and visions.
In my art, I am always striving to capture the feeling I get when in remote places. Traveling and hiking grounds me and elevates me at the same time. It can be the stillness, or the energy of a place, that I find inspiring. Abstraction frees me from literal interpretations and transforms into language of pure emotion.
BIO:
Tina currently works in her home studio in Northern Kentucky. She studied Fine Arts at Northern Kentucky University, attended workshops at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Arts Consortium. Recently her art journey was furthered by studying under the encaustic trailblazers Alicia Tormey, and Dietlind Vander Schaaf. She completed an artist residency at Paula Roland Studio in New Mexico.
With a passion for creating, Tina has established herself as a mixed-media painter and encaustic printmaker. Her work has been shown in Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Washington DC, and North Carolina.