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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This encaustic original shows one of Australia's favorite birds, the beautiful Fairy Wren. I broke one of my own rules when I created this piece - I usually omit all man-made structures from my art, to transport the viewer into the wilderness. But I made an exception in this case because I fell in love with this little wren, and enjoyed rendering the subtle hues of the rail in the fading light. 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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Giclee on Canvas
Size:
12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:
13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
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White
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White Canvas
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Tanya Ogilvie-White
Australia
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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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Sydney, Sydney, Sydney
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