Studio Reset

You will find Studio Reset’s work ethereal contemporary and with a nostalgic quality that takes you back intime.

I’m sure you’ve heard the term from “farm to plate”, well in this case Studio Reset works from “Beehive to Artwork”. Taking total creative control and keeping sustainability as one of her key focuses, she works through the time consuming process from scratch; harvesting wax from her beehives, making encaustic medium and then painting with it in up-cycled or re-purposed substrates.

Her artwork is a result of combining 3 passions/professions together to create a full circle in her creative processes: beekeeping, photography, and encaustic painting. Studio Reset starts with a found substrate, usually an old tray or wooden platter to create nature inspired compositions with depth, translucency and environmental meaning. She assembles her imagery by layering portions of photographs with ink, pigment, and building up the layers between many fine sheets of beeswax. The process is very much an organic one; supporting sustainability in her art practice by the material she uses.

Working with heat guns, blowtorches and molten wax is not for the faint hearted. She is attracted to this medium for its dimensional quality and lumino...

Kapiti Arts Trail 2022
Auckland Artshow 2022
NZ Art show 2021
Kapiti Artshow 2021
The Other Art Fair Sydney 2019
NZ ART SHOW 2017
NZ ART SHOW 2018
NZ ART SHOW 2019
Christchurch Art show 2018
Christchurch Art show 2019
Dunedin Art Show 2018
Art Expo Nelson 2017
Art Expo Nelson 2018
Art Expo Nelson 2019
Kapiti Art Trail Open Studio 2017
Kapiti Art Trail Open Studio 2018
Kapiti Art Trail Open Studio 2019