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David Price - Artist Statement I have pursued encaustics to create pieces that speak to a place that is somehow familiar and timeless. Transporting the viewer into the landscape is an inviting sense of depth, an image with a rich and layered surface that makes each piece look affected by the passage of time. My work responds to the concept of refuge and prospect. It is a basic human need and desire to seek out a secure and sheltered place, the refuge, looking out at a broad view, the prospect. Often I will incise lines at the edges of a work to further this sense of refuge, to create an architectural sense that the viewer is in a place looking out. None of my works are of any particular scene per se. They are inspired by images and views that I have seen and are meant to be more archetypal. I have a large collection of art books and often times a small section of a painting, two colors working well together in the background, can inspire a work. The Renaissance painters in particular have fantastic backgrounds in their works, the colors and light, as well as the patina of age. The sensory pleasures of working with encaustics never cease to amaze me. First, is the creation of the ground, cracked and irregular, subtly layered with color to bring out the imperfections and character of the surface. Then, the studio is filled with the scent of the beeswax that is the main component of the encaustic medium. The wax medium is layered with colored pigments, in a subtractive as well as additive process, to create the translucent depth of the surface, with the heat of the application process further enhancing the character of the ground under. Finally, the surface is fused with heat, to “freeze” the image in time. Resume Education
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