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| Artists Tea Schrack |
Illusive is the word that best
describes my attraction of this subject matter. By nature it is not static, only
I make it so.
My hope is that the work connects to
the viewer by evoking some kind of passion. Maybe it’s in the color or just a
feeling of wanting to be in it. In some
abstract way I want them to get lost in the work, like I do when I photograph
or paint it. Water, being never static is a life lesson, forever becoming
something else, we can learn from it. Embrace becoming something else-called
change. Learning from waters fluidity, living like water and never being
trapped.
Inner landscape=the act of painting
Outer landscape=the act of
photographing
Jay deFeo has been an inspiration since I was at the San
Francisco Art Institute in the 1980’s. Her piece the Rose was buried in a wall
of a class room and held such a huge amount of mystery to us students. Her
current retrospective reenforced my feeling towards her work
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| Blue Shadows, 23"x15", Encaustic |
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| Light On Water, 43"x47", Encaustic |
Oil and encaustic paintings :
Encaustic wax is a combination of beeswax, resin and pigment for color. It is applied hot, around 220 degrees, then fused with a heat gun or torch. The surface (birch panel) is built up with numerous layers of not only wax, but also oil paints and pigmented wax.
Color photography, printed with archival pigment inks is combined with a number of layers of Encaustic wax. The photograph is mounted on birch plywood panels, the edges finished and ready for the wax painting.