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Several years ago, an artist friend of
mine who was leaving the area, sold me her printing press for a
small sum. I couldn’t pass it up and put it in my studio garage.
Having not made prints since my college days, it took quite awhile
to find myself in that medium. Clearly the most enjoyment I had was
creating the textured surfaces on wood for collographs. As it turned
out, I usually liked the used inked plates, much better than the
prints.
Encaustic seemed like a natural
extension of plate creation, allowing me to build up and take down
various surfaces with ease, burning them in, scraping away what I
didn’t like, and then perhaps changing the whole surface the next
work day. The possibilities seemed endless.
Four years later, working in wax still
fascinates me. The great beauty of encaustic is the ability to heat
and work a surface many times, without waiting, because the wax
hardens immediately.
As with all mediums, the greatest
challenge is knowing when the piece is “done.”
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Jennifer was born in San Francisco, and
grew up on the Peninsula. She graduated from UC in 1981 with a
degree in Fine Arts, and studied graphics and Fashion illustration
in Munich, Germany from 1983-1986. Her work hangs in private
collections in the Bay Area, as well as in Germany, Zurich and
France. |
