Catherine Eaton Skinner

Concatenation XIII

Encaustic, oil paint, carving and 21k moon gold leaf on wood panel Lisa Ostapinski is a painter and art educator based in Oakland, CA.  She works with unusual materials and processes including metal leaf gilding, encaustic painting (beeswax), sgraffito and oil paint marbling.  Her work juxtaposes archaic media with modern forms producing a fresh, contemporary take on these art historical techniques.  Lisa’s imagery pulls from a diverse array of sources including textile and jewelry design, architecture, modern painting, the natural world, scientific illustration...

About the artist... I was four. We walked off a hot San Jose city street, down the side of a muddy embankment, to sit with our feet in the cold, chattering water of Steven’s Creek. A...

"Unbeheld Schema" in "A Clearing for Silence" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. This painting conveys an unde...

Acquired through Peter Black Gallery by present owner. Oil and encaustic on canvas. Balancing between abstraction and figurative, the works of Chris Gwaltney (b. 1953) are evocative...

"Unified Field" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswa...

"Looking For Self Out There" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Enca...