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Instructor: Isabel Gaborit
Wednesday - Thursday
June 5 - 6
2 Sessions
10:00am - 4:00pm

During this two days’ workshop,  Isabelle will demonstrate various techniques which can be used by artists working with encaustic painting, focusing on geological activity and phenomena in relation to notions of time. Like the natural forces which give shape to the landscape over long period of time, she will demonstrate the necessary physicality of the processes that shaped the land, may they be erosion, deposition, weathering or relief, by building up, scrapping back, heating, cooling, scoring, shaping and building up layers. In overall, by mimicking the addition and subtraction of geological processes in nature, she is hoping to reveal records or stories, whose traces are still left on highly tactile surfaces.

Participants will be exposed to basic, intermediate and advanced techniques in working with encaustic medium

Isabelle is a contemporary artist, though her preferred medium of encaustic is ancient. She graduated in 2006 with an honours degree in fine arts in Ireland. Since then, she has been exhibiting work extensively nationally and internationally in, among others, The United States, Northern Ireland, China and France.  Her creative process goes hand in hand with her daily sketching practice where she explores mark-making and gesture, as she absorbs her experience of her surroundings and visual memory of place: forms, colours, textures and patterns. This experience is transmuted into her paintings, not in an overtly conscious way, but as a result of the embodiment of her experiences in her hand and body. 

Isabelle is particularly interested in the geological processes built up in layers over time, that the harsh weather is slowly breaking down and revealing. Her art process echoes those geological processes. Like the natural forces that shape the landscape,  each painting goes through numerous stages of construction, destruction, growth, and decay. As the paintings go through the physicality of what could be akin to an archaeological process, layers of pigmented beeswax are built up, scraped back while cooled, scored, and shaped, creating highly tactile surfaces.

Website: www.isabellegaborit.com