Encaustic on wood panel.

30x30x1.50"

The Raw Flame, a lyric taken from a Steely Dan song, suited this piece, as if one is headed into the fiery distant sunset.
Encaustic is an ancient Greco-Roman painting medium, consisting of pigment mixed into bees-wax and a natural hardener, damar. The medium must be melted to paint with it, then fused with a torch or heat gun to adhere it to the substrate.
The flow of the pigmented, melted beeswax while painting is very much like moving clouds, wind, and water, thus my motivation to paint water against the sky. Though intended to be an abstract, I can easily see how this piece could be taken as a landscape.

The Raw Flame

Victoria Wallace

2,400.00

Painting

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