Show remains on display through the end of January 219 at Avondale Therapy, 815 Savannah Highway.
On Saturday, January 19th, 4-7pm at Avondale Therapy, live painting and conversation with Susan Irish. Free event. All welcome!
Abstract work created in the ancient method of encaustic.
Beeswax is melted and used as a binder for the paint pigment. Each patch of color and layer of detail needs to be fused with a heat gun or butane torch.
It is a complicated process but the luminous colors make it so worth it. Hope you like what you see.
Encaustic, 6x9, $225
8x8
Encaustic
$225
Encaustic
$225
Encaustic on wood.
SOLD
Encaustic, wood panels framed, $400
I love the instant gratification of working with acrylic paint. I have been striving for those lustrous layers I see in encaustic wax. All the things that called me as a child: marks, colors, patterns, scraping away layers and carving in textures now emerge.
11x14
Acrylic on paper
11 x 14 on paper
4x6 acrylic on paper
acrylic on paper on panel
20x28
16 x 20 on canvas
20 x 16
11 x 14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
20x28 acrylic on paper on panel
48 x 36 on canvas
8x5 acrylic on paper
5x7 acrylic on canvas
16x20 on canvas
4x6 acrylic on paper
5x8 acrylic on paper
acrylic on paper
8x5 Acrylic on paper
Part of Scarlet Wisteria series
13 x 17 framed
17 x 13 framed
17 x 13
Framed
10 x 14
5 x 7 Acrylic on wood
9x12 Acrylic on wood panel
9 x 12 wood panel
Part of Pond Series
11 x 14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
11 x 14 paper
11 x 14 paper
11 x 14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
Part of pond series
11 x 14 on paper
11 x 14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
11 x 1 4 on paper
Part of Pond Series
11 x 14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
12 x 16 on paper
Part of Pond Series
11x14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
9 x 12 on wood panel
11 x 14 paper
Part of Pond Series
9 x 12 on paper
11 x 14 on paper
Part of Pond Series
Acrylic
11 x 14 Acyrlic on Paper
My grandmother once asked me if I thought God was mad at us? The irregular and extreme weather patterns and onslaught of natural disaster caused her to wonder if we were being punished for our harsh treatment and blatant disregard for the earth. I said that I don’t know about God’s intent but I was pretty sure that Mother Nature was very pissed off.
So began a series of painting from Mother Nature’s point of view. I have tried to personify her, make her appear in the landscape, or emerge from a slice of cut tree. The gouged and scarred earth appear often in my paintings. In my quest for better understanding, I learned some scary facts about hydro-fracking. I believe this disturbs Mother the most.
I actually found an article in the local paper begging the same question so I incorporated the clipping in this work. It illustrated a warning that if we are not careful the mountains will slide into the sea. See nuclear winter, melting icebergs, deforestation, and contaminated groundwater caused by hydrofraking.
Encaustic
Encaustic 9x12
15x18 with frame
Encaustic/mixed media
Encaustic 16x20
Encaustic. on panel 8x10 The Parkland kids as part of a series on voting rights.
Encaustic on panel. MLK and comrades marching arm in arm and singing. Part of voting rights.
Encaustic on panel. Suffragettes paraded through the long cold night, high heels and sash banners as if in a pageant.
Encaustic, Topic of Voting Rights in A Dialogue in Black and White show at Charleston City Gallery Spoletto Festival 2018.
Encaustic on panel
18x20 encaustic $500
Encaustic on wood. 4 least favorite words. Actually heard all 4 in 4 days. Over use dilutes the effect of the true meaning.
Encaustic on wood
Although my work is typically abstract, I am in awe that I live here so I must capture the beauty some how.
Encaustic on wood 12x12
Encaustic on wood 12x12
Encaustic on wood 12x12
This man is reflecting on his life. Paired with the boy below and others not shown they create a poetic story on the passage of time. It was painted the year I turned 50 and my first born son turned 25. How could it be that he so swiftly became the age I was at his birth.
Mother Nature, my favorite superhero. This is the first painting in the Mother Nature Series.
Defender of the earth. Humans are no match for her fury. She thinks she is the exception but Father Time waits for no one. It is a race. Will humans realize what they have to lose before irreparable damage is rendered.
The origins of encaustic painting reach back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Traditionally this medium was used to create Fayum Funeral Portraits. Since wax is a preservative and the binder for this painting method, these works have survived through history.
From Robert Frost poetry. While monitoring study hall, I would draw my students.
From a series called Rules of the Road