- Mixed Media : Encaustic Wax, Acrylic on Wood, Solid Oak Frame
- 103 x 103 x 5.5 cm
- For sale: $6,500
Sunset Poems
Encaustic wax is my passion. It’s an incredible material – not commonly used and made from beeswax and tree resin – it is unpredictable – which I love."
Working from a studio at the foothills of the Waitākere Ranges, Helen Keen’s encaustic wax paintings resonate with the local flora and fauna while inhabiting the fragmented light of this forested ecosystem. Kaleidoscopic wonderlands de-materialize, shape-shift, and surface patterns melt into surfaces, to give the optical effect of “a panorama containing multitudes.”
This patterning and surface mark-making create painterly echoes of a bygone era, which are recognisable, yet brilliantly fashioned in their individual composition. Each painting is a landscape of folded light, where dream aesthetics fuse elemental forms of shadow and pigment.
