Barbara Parish ~ Aquarellist: Artist to Artist

Monday, February 25, 2013

Artist to Artist

Hello Painters,
This month I have the pleasure of introducing a fellow artist working with Encaustic Paints and completing her MFA at Claremont Graduate University. Busy and focused!

Suzanne Gibbs, Artist

I am currently doing all of my painting in encaustic paints while completing my MFA at Claremont Graduate University. I was one of those kids that continually played with the melting wax of candles on my mother's beautifully set table, much to her dismay. I also was the first to build a fire on every camping trip I've been on, ask my husband! Encaustic is a form of painting using pigments suspended in wax. I work with encaustic paint in the molten state, fuse it to the substrate with fire and let it harden to a translucent finish. I make art using basic motifs of patterning like dots, lines, circles and squares and continually try to finish a work on the edge of structured and disordered. Each unplanned happy accident sets the stage for my next exploration.