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Encaustic Circle Newsletter - September 2010
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Hi !
Play it Again - sold!  | The days are getting shorter and cooler. School starts in a couple of days and our focus is shifting. The past months have been busy for me with travel, painting and teaching, many exhibitions and also a few sales, among them the poppies "Play it again". September is fully booked, with Linda Womack's courses starting Sept. 9, my Late Summer Salon on Sept. 18 and the IEA Retreat/Advance, Sept 23 - 26. For October I'm promising myself a month of painting again! This time I'm going to focus on mono printing. (N.B.: If you are in the Toronto area, check out Exhibition News below about a fabulous show, opening this Saturday!) |
The new Munro Heatable Palette
| A little more on the Munro Heatable Palette
Munro Heatable Palette  |
Last month I mentioned this new device, which you can use as a heated palette to paint on and make mono prints.
The Munro Heatable Palette (MHP) is developed by my good friend Carol and her husband Don.
She now has a comprehensive description on her website.
Carol will demonstrate and answer questions on the MHP during my Late Summer Salon (more below).
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Invitation to my Late Summer Salon
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Late Summer Salon
This is an open invitation to join Encaustic artists at an informal gathering
I'm inviting everyone with an interest in Encaustic for a gathering at Linden Gardenson Saturday, September 18, from 10 AM - 2 PM.Example greeting card
 | You'll have the opportunity to play with the outline stickers, use my collection of punches and make your own greeting card. Carol Munro, the mastermind behind new Munro Heatable Palette, will be there to give demonstrations and answer your questions about the palette. No need to bring your own painting supplies; I'll have everything set up for you. Feel free to purchase your lunch from the excellent deli Frog City Cafe and perhaps tour the beautiful gardens for a modest fee of $5.00. (B.t.w.: Linden Gardens sells Season's Passes---a wonderful Christmas
gift or a birthday gift for someone who loves gardens...it would be
good for next year.) I'll provide refreshments and some goodies. This is a drop-in and there is no fee. Please bring your friends and visitors! Donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds going to the Penticton Art Gallery.If possible, I'd love for you to let me know beforehand if you are
planning to attend, so I'll have enough cookies! Please email me at
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Workshops+ Circle meetings
| This year there will be two more workshops and one Super Circle: encaustic + photos
 | Friday, October 15, Leir House Penticton Copying from an existing imageSaturday, October 30, Leir House Penticton Super Circle + Card MakingFriday, December 10, Kenyon House, Okanagan Falls Encaustic + Photos (almost full!) Contact me if you'd like to sign up for any of these. The schedule for next year will be posted soon. For my outside workshops I'd like to combine classes in the same region. Please let me know a.s.a.p. if you like me to teach in your area, so I can start planning! More info on my course program.
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Exhibition News
| Last month Andrea Bird was my featured artist. She sent me an invitation to this group show of
12 artists, working in Encaustic. Unfortunately I cannot attend, but if
you're closer to Toronto, do take a look and say "hello" from me!  the whole ball of waxa celebration of encaustic September 1 - 12, 2010 Opening reception Sat. Sept. 4, 2010 12 - 6 PM @ Propeller, centre for the visual arts 984 Queen West, Toronto, Ontario
More information on how to enter "Brilliant Moments III", the third Encaustic Art Show in the Okanagan: Oct. 7 - Nov. 11 at Leir House, Penticton is now available on my website.
I'm inviting all artists who work in encaustic and live in the Okanagan to submit work.
Please don't dally too long! The deadline for submissions is September 27!
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Featured Guest Artist: Linda Womack
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For this section I'd like to highlight one of you each month. Please email me if you would like to be featured here. My newsletter reaches more than 800 Encaustic enthusiasts, who are all eager to learn more about you! This month's featured artist is Linda Womack. Linda Womack  | It is only fitting that she should be my featured artist this month, as she and her husband Bill will be my guests here in the Okanagan from Sept. 7. She will teach her first workshops in Canada, Sept. 9 - 12. Linda Womack is a nationally
recognized artist, art instructor and the author of Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax. In 2010 she
was the curator for Luminous Layers:
Exploring Contemporary Encaustic, a wide ranging exhibit in Oregon
featuring 65 artists and more than 160 pieces of art. Linda is often a featured
speaker and instructor at the National Encaustic Conference and her work has been
published in American Art Collector and Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility by
Daniella Woolf. For more information, please visit her website.
Linda's Artist Statement
Halfway between dream and
waking lie precious, fragile moments where the real and the imagined merge.
Memories flood through the semi-consciousness and the mind captures their
fragments, connecting disparate parts like a puzzle missing pieces. My work
interprets these fleeting impressions through layers of imagery, text and
texture. The final work gives the impression of distant memories, those you
can't vividly recall, a hazy interpretation of what we see in strong daylight.
Surrounding Courage/Linda Womack  | Memory itself is
transitory and illusive. Instead of things being black and white they are
surprisingly open to interpretation. Thoughts get jumbled over the years and we
are left only with the strongest impressions and most useless trivia,
sacrificing the mundane. Everyday conversations fade into snippets of words and
letters floating through our minds, but strong words leave strong impressions
that cannot be easily erased.
From these memories I
create work that marries the essence of my history and the prospect of the
future using a medium borrowed from the past. My work pairs modern materials
with the ancient technique of encaustic painting, where beeswax, resin and
pigment are layered to produce a luminous surface that captures and reflects
light. The translucency of the wax creates layers of information, like the
sediment of time, while stirring the senses of sight, smell, and touch.
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Last month I treated myself to a rare art day in Vancouver: I went to see the FCA show "Painting on the Edge", which featured "The World is Not Flat" by Carol Munro and spent several hours in the Vancouver Art Gallery. The weather was gorgeous and I walked along the river to Granville Island.
I also got to see our son's new apartment and had a lovely visit with him and his wife.
It was expensive to fly up and spent just 12 hours in the city, but totally worth it! Sometimes we just have to spoil ourselves...and two days later I learned that I sold a painting at one of the wineries, so I did not feel so guilty anymore...;-)
Happy Painting!
Thea Haubrich
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