Curious Messenger - How?
2014
Encaustic and Linen on Dyed Cherry wood Panel
62x73 inches
So much for the Why? - what about the how?
The cherry wood panel was coloured with aniline dyes, and the splattered with water before the dye set. A final coat of finish wax seals the wood surface.
The heavily layered encaustic paint (beeswax, damar resin and microcrystalline-wax combined with pigment powders) applied directly to the wood.
Encaustic medium is soaked through the Linen and into the wood beneath effectively binding them together.
The cherry wood panel was coloured with aniline dyes, and the splattered with water before the dye set. A final coat of finish wax seals the wood surface.
The heavily layered encaustic paint (beeswax, damar resin and microcrystalline-wax combined with pigment powders) applied directly to the wood.
Encaustic medium is soaked through the Linen and into the wood beneath effectively binding them together.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.