Instructor: Edith Beatty
Wednesday - Thursday
June 2 - 3
10am - 4pm
2 sessions
It’s raining, they’re snoring; but we all are POURING! 

During this 2-day workshop, participants will explore several different techniques for pouring encaustic paint, as an alternative to our more common applications of applying paint with brushes or tools. We will demonstrate each of the various strategies. Participants will have the opportunity to work alone or with a partner to practice various applications, discover and learn the multiple factors influencing the successful pour, engage in dialog about the opportunities and challenges to pouring, and finish with a thoughtful piece. This workshop promises to be fun and lively, offer opportunities for inquiry and experimentation, and move from the traditional calculated pours to some more loosely implemented gesturing. Pouring offers ample opportunity for embedding trinkets, finds, keepsakes, and natural materials into the wax.

Materials list will be developed to include substrates, objects to embed, and wax.  

Edith Beatty is a Vermont artist who works in encaustic, oil, fresco, and fiber, with earthy materials: wood, beeswax, resin, marble dust, pit lime, sand, coffee, shells, paper pulp, linens, silk, and natural pigments. Her work has shown in juried and curated shows in Seattle, New York City, Chicago, Portland, Cambridge, Truro, and throughout Vermont. She has enjoyed teaching encaustic painting in Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Having earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Indiana University, she enjoyed an extensive career designing and leading programs to promote social justice and equity. She has since shifted her focus to making works of art that convey that same struggle and hope. Beatty is drawn to encaustic painting because “the dance between transparency and opacity, the lovely way in which multiple layers of molten, pigmented beeswax, and resin, each fused in the process, conceal and reveal images, color, and textures beneath.”