Kathy Bradshaw: Featured Artist of the Week
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The Avens Gallery 101-710 Main Street, Canmore, Alberta T1W 0B9
Kathy Bradshaw: Featured Artist of the Week
Saskatoon-based artist, Kathy Bradshaw completed her first painting at 40 and hasn't stopped since! For more than a decade now, Kathy has worked mainly with oil and encaustic, an ancient medium treasured for its luminosity, layering capabilities and ability to invoke memory and mystery.
What is encaustic? Encaustic is made of beeswax and dammar resin (to make it more resilient and shiny) and is coloured with pigments or oil paint. Once heated, the molten wax is generally applied to wooden panels with brushes and all layers are fused together with a heat source such as a heat gun or blow torch in order to ensure a permanent bond. The final step is to buff the surface to a high enamel-like shine with a soft cotton cloth in a random circular motion. This heightens the lustre and luminosity of the waxy surface.
"People often ask me whether I work from sketches, photos, my imagination or from memory and while I work from all four, I prefer to say that I work from my emotions. For it is the emotional and spiritual connection towards my subject that is most important and I must feel that before I begin painting.” - KB