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"Encaustic Nudes" 

"The process and changes in my life are recorded visually in my art.  Drawing and painting figures has been my passion since I was in third grade when I began sketching classmates instead of completing my assignments.

After three years of making non-objective work in encaustic I have returned to the figure in this series, perhaps just temporarily.  I decided to challenge myself by painting the nudes in encaustic.  This laborious, exciting and frustrating technique (hot beeswax, resin and pigment) pushes all my artistic boundaries.  In this process-oriented technique I can build translucent layers of hot, molten color, scraping, incising, melting, fusing, creating a surface that expresses emotion, texture and energy.  The making of these paintings is often like traveling in uncharted waters.  I do a lot of scraping away and starting over.  When the painting "works" my heart and soul are in sync with the materials and the spirit of the painting."

-- Eschwan