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Rosella in Flight Painting

Tanya Ogilvie-White

Australia

Painting, Wax on Wood

Size: 11.8 W x 16.5 H x 0.4 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The Eastern Rosella is one of Australia's most beautiful birds. This one spends a lot of his time in the pink flowering gum tree in our garden - it's his favorite place. I love photographing him swooping through the branches - he's usually quite a shy bird, but when our tree is flowering, he looks joyful. This is one of my all time favorite artworks, art of my Last Light series. Technique: My creative process is an adaptation of a technique developed by the ancient Greeks. I start by printing my wildlife photographs onto tissue paper using a specialist printer and heat-resistant inks. I then build up layers of wax onto primed wooden panels, embed the tissue into the wax surface, and continue adding layer upon layer of hardened beeswax, which I burn in with a live flame and then scrape back with metals tools. I enhance the image by applying oils, inks and pastels between the wax layers, add definition by line-carving, and create texture and depth by embedding various materials into the wax. This archival piece does not need to be framed. It is waxed and painted on the edges and prepped with picture hardware on the back, ready to hang.

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Painting:

Wax on Wood

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

11.8 W x 16.5 H x 0.4 D in

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Finalist, Refocus Awards (People's Choice), 2024 Finalist, The Facet Art Prize, 2023 Finalist, The Alice Prize, 2020 I'm an artist and photographer from Byron Bay, in the beautiful sub-tropical region of the Northern Rivers, on the east coast of Australia. The region is known for its beautiful scenery and spectacular wildlife, which I enjoy photographing as a nature photographer. Alongside my career as a scholar and writer, I've been creating art all my life, exhibiting my work at art festivals around the world. In 2017 I decided to launch my own art business, Scorching Skies Art, as an outlet for my encaustic artworks, some of which can be seen here. The technique I'm known for is known as 'photographic encaustic'. It involves burning layers of melted beeswax into enlarged, heatproof photographs, which are bonded to wooden panels and then transformed into wax paintings through the application of oils, inks, pastels and other materials. The resulting artworks take on a life of their own and are impossible to replicate. I'm drawn to the technique because it has such an ethereal quality, and also because the way the wax and pigments mix under the live flame feels like alchemy. Recent accolades for my work include: Finalist in The Alice Prize 2020 for encaustic triptych, 'Alice's Finches' Finalist in the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award, 2019 (for 'Swooping Bee-eater', Skyward Series) Finalist in the 2018 Australian Photography of the Year awards (landscape category) Nominations in the 2017 and 2018 Fine Art Photography Awards, London (nature and wildlife categories) Shortlisted nominations in the 2017 and 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards, London (earth's environments and black and white categories).

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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Sydney, Sydney, Sydney

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