Distant Musings - Melanie Eade

Melanie Eade

Distant Musings, 2023

40 x 50 cmFramed: 43 x 53 cmEncaustic wax on boardSoldEncaustic painting is 3000 years old and is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium( beeswax and damar resin) to which coloured pigments such as inks, oil paints, pastels or other forms of pigmentation have been added. The molten mix is applied to a surface—usually prepared wood. Metal tools and natural bristle brushes are used to shape the medium as it cools. A heat gun or blow torch is used to fuse and bind the medium.