Art by Medium: Encaustic

Tracy Spadafora's “TEL-www”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of blue, green, white, black, and yellow colors...

Tracy Spadafora's “Windmill”, is from her “Monument” series. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of red and black transparent colors. The 17 x 14 inch painting is o...

Tracy Spadafora's “Forest”, is from her “Monument” series. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of orange-yellow and black transparent colors. The 17 x 14 inch paint...

"When I walk into my atelier to start a new painting, I look at the white surface, feeling into it, and the first color that comes to mind is where I begin. I start by pouring the pa...

In this contemporary abstract painting, vibrant metallic silver and bright teal blue encaustic (pigmented beeswax) is accented with bright blue on the edge. Signed and titled on vers...

Contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on birch panel in bright, vibrant teal blue with bright blue edges. Signed and titled on the verso. Joanne Mattera’s paintings ca...

Abstracted landscape photograph of clouds and blue sky on three panels Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on 3 panels, each panel is 36 i...

An abstract light lilac purple encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with pale teal blue accents and bright coral edges on birch panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Joanne Ma...

Tracy Spadafora's “Poles” is from her “Monument” series. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of blue and black transparent colors. The 17 x 14 inch painting is on B...

Signed encaustic monoprint, #15 in a series of 20 pieces. Elise Wagner painter, printmaker, and teacher, is a recent recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Originally fr...

Tracy Spadafora's “Never Vanishing”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of blue, rust, yellow, orange, and brow...

This is a vibrant red orange encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with light reddish orange and faint yellow accents on birch panel. Signed, date...

In this contemporary painting, luminous lime yellow green encaustic (pigmented beeswax) is accented with coral reddish orange towards the top edge. Signed, dated and titled on verso....

White What's Left (Contemporary Abstract Painting with Colorful Paper Collage) 20 x 20 x 2 inches encaustic, collage on wood panel Signed on rev...

A yellow encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on birch panel accented with light neon lemon yellow edges. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Joanne Mattera’s paintings can be desc...

Abstract mixed media painting with green spurge plant material and neutral encaustic on panel 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches, ready to hang as is Sturdy d-ring is on the back for installation ...

Tracy Spadafora's “A Place for Thought”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of aqua blues, brown, pink, orange,...

Abstract landscape sepia tone photograph of clouds Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on 4 panels, each panel is 36 inches x 11 inches ...

Tracy Spadafora's “Cell Towers”, is from her “Monument” series. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of greenish-yellow and black transparent colors. The 17 x 14 inc...

Tracy Spadafora's “Water Towers” is from her “Monument” series. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of blue-violet and black transparent colors. The 17 x 11 inch pa...

Territory Warming #4 is a richly textured encaustic collagraph by Elise Wagner, an artist known for merging scientific inquiry with sensuous materiality. In this abstract composition...

Abstract landscape color photograph of clouds and sky on 3 panels Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on 3 panels, each panel is 36 inches...

This scene echoes Aeling’s earlier years exploring Yellowstone and the northern Rockies, where geothermal landscapes and severe winters formed a visual laboratory for him. The stark verticals of dead trees rising through steam and snow evoke the quiet violence of natural forces—eruption, freeze, regrowth. Aeling often spoke of landscapes as records of time, and this painting exemplifies that belief: it is both serene and charged with memory, documenting a terrain shaped by fire, water, and cold. That sense of elemental transformation is deepened by the medium itself. This is the only encaustic painting found in his studio following his death—a rare departure from his familiar oil technique. The wax-based process, involving heat, layering, and an almost geological buildup of surface, mirrors the very forces depicted in the scene. It stands as a singular artifact in his oeuvre, a final and poignant testament to his fascination with how material, time, and natural forces converge. Jeff Aeling Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone encaustic on panel 48h x 34w in 121.92h x 86.36w cm JAE041 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings...

Tracy Spadafora's “Billboards”, is from her “Monument” series. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of reddish-violet and black transparent colors. The 17 x 14 inch ...

Abstract still life photograph of yellow Acacia flowers and green leaves against a white sky background Photograph printed on Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on four panel...

Carrie Goller's (US based) "Earth Sky Sea" (2024) is an original, mixed media using encaustic on wood panel that depicts an abstracted transition from earth, water, and sky. Born an...

Reflecting Waters is an encaustic painting by Colorado-based artist Shannon Mello. Based in Colorado Springs, Mello creates atmospheric, highly tactile landscapes and abstract compos...

Abstract still life photograph of pink magenta Bougainvillea flowers and green leaves against a white sky background Photograph printed on Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic ...

After Jasper Johns Collage and Encaustic Wax on Board

Abstracted landscape sepia toned photograph of clouds and sky on three panels Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on 3 panels, each panel ...

Contemporary pigment print 36 x 34 inches unframed Japanese Kozo paper infused with encaustic on 3 panels, each panel is 36 inches x 11 inches edition of 12 Jeri Eisenberg's photo...

Tracy Spadafora's “Display of Beauty”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of pink, grey, dark red, and blue col...

Tracy Spadafora's “Reflective Dumpster”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of dark and light blues, rust, brow...

Foreign seeds and encaustic on wood panel 24 x 24 x 1.5 inches This work on panel is being offered by Carrie Haddad Gallery, located in Hudson, NY. This modern encaustic painting by...

Lori Vrba's "Portal" is a mixed media work created with encaustic photographs, on a vintage cupcake tin. "My recent foray into assemblage work feels like an organic extension and pr...

Tracy Spadafora's “The Tender and the Delicate”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of pink, blue, brown, and r...

Edition of 8 Fixed is a series of photographs made by Rachel Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron: Until this project, Madge Cameron (b. 1935) had always seen photography as a sep...

Far from Alone is an encaustic painting on panel by Colorado-based artist Shannon Mello. Based in Colorado Springs, Mello creates luminous landscape and abstract compositions using h...

Edition of 8 Fixed is a series of photographs made by Rachel Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron: Until this project, Madge Cameron (b. 1935) had always seen photography as a sep...

Vibrant mint green and sky blue encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting accented with subtle gold details on birch panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Joanne Mattera’s painting...

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

Layered and complex abstracted landscape by Lauren Ohlgren (American, b. 1959). At the base layer, this piece is an abstracted landscape, with saturate purple and green trees. Sketches of trees...

Rinat Goren (Israeli, American, born 1964) "Waiting" 2023 Encaustic paint on cradled wood panel The artist signed the bottom right corner of the painting. “Waiting” is a refined, contemporary figurative-abstract encaustic work. The composition centers on a stylized female figure set against a richly layered grid of warm reds, oranges, and golden tones. The figure is integrated into the architectural structure of the painting, appearing both present and suspended within the surrounding geometry. Goren’s encaustic technique builds luminous depth through translucent wax layers, incised lines, and embedded shapes. The grid-like background evokes urban systems, schedules, and quiet rhythms, while the elongated figure introduces a human pause within this ordered framework. Her posture suggests stillness and anticipation, reinforcing the painting’s title and emotional undercurrent. Balancing abstraction with figuration, “Waiting” reflects Goren’s ongoing exploration of time, presence, and human experience within structured environments. The warm palette and tactile surface give the work an inviting yet contemplative quality. About the Artist: Rinat Goren is an Israeli-American artist based in California whose contemporary encaustic works explore the relationship between thought, structure, and emotion. Born in Israel and residing most of her life in the U.S., Goren has long been drawn to both observation and creation, translating the complexity of the human mind into layered visual compositions. Her encaustic paintings—formed by applying molten beeswax mixed with pigment—evoke a tactile, sensory experience that reflects her fascination with systems, decision-making, and the creative act itself. She works with geometry, color, and abstraction to celebrate our innate capacity to reflect, choose, and act with intention. Goren’s process is rooted in one of the world’s oldest painting...

Layered and complex abstracted landscape by Lauren Ohlgren (American, b. 1959). At the base layer, this piece is an abstracted landscape, with saturate purple and green trees. Sketches of fruit, leaves, and cross hatching are layered on top, with a final layer of white color pencil highlights. Signed "Lauren S Olgren" in the lower right corner. Signed, titled, and dated on verso. No frame. Lauren Ohlgren (American, b. 1959) began her art career in the mid 1990’s making hand-painted silk and art-to-wear. She then began to work in encaustics, and later incorporated various mixed media into her artwork. Ohlgren was the curator of Journal 365, A Page A Day community project in 2015 and The She Project, 2005-2013. Ohlgren is also the author of 2005 award winning book, The She Project; How ‘She’ Inspired a Community. Exhibitions and Instruction: 1999 - “Rags 99 Wearable Art Show”, Tacoma, Washington 2005 - Red Horse Coffee, Albany, Oregon 2010 - Giustina Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon 2011 - The Teal Artists Co-Op, Corvallis, Oregon 2018 - The Art Center, Corvallis, Oregon 2019 - Philomath Open Studios Instructor, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Instructor, Linn Benton Community College Instructor, Portland Urban Sketchers...

Signed unique encaustic monoprint depicting an erupting volcano. Elise Wagner painter, printmaker, and teacher, is a recent recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Origin...

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

Signed encaustic monoprint, #7 in a series of 12 pieces. Elise Wagner painter, printmaker, and teacher, is a recent recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Originally fro...

Series: Untitled 1 Encaustic and Oil On Wood Panel Size: 30" x 40" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photog...

Series: Deep Woods Encaustic oil and shellac Size: 28" x 58" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photography,...

In this contemporary painting on panel, pale lavender, pinky purple encaustic (pigmented beeswax) is accented with light lilac details in and light teal blue along the edge. Signed a...

In this contemporary painting, dark red encaustic (pigmented beeswax) is accented with subtle lilac, gray and lavender details and a light purple edge. Signed, dated and titled on ve...

1/1, steel frame, Can be hung vertical or horizontal Oil and encaustic Size: 30" x 40" This painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.

1/1, oil and encaustic Size: 36x48 (2 panels) In Andrea’s diptych, CONVERGENCE, the canvas is dominated in dreamy haze of blues, golds and purples. These colors blend together the ...

Les Thomas has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture. Les Thoma...

My work is a visual and increasingly literal patchwork quilt containing little and big pieces of myself and the archetypal imagery developed over the course of my practice. Within the paintings are vintage bed sheets...

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This encaustic artwork is a meditation on ocean plant life, created with molten beeswax, pigment, and crushed gemstones. Marine botanicals radiate in a circular...

Light aqua and green encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on birch panel with a bright yellow edge. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Joanne Mattera’s paintings are can be descri...

"Fern" — mixed-media painting of a fern isolated against a textural blue background by Donise English Oil and encaustic on paper Image size: 16 x 20 inches / Frame size: 21.25 x 25 ...

Gary Wolfe works in painting, drawing, monotypes, video, and mixed media. Coming from a family that has roots in Western New York reaching back at least four generations, he was born...

Tracy Spadafora's “Dumpster 45196”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of blue, rust, white, brown, and orange ...