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Style: Contemporary
Style: Abstract
Medium: Encaustic
Fields of Gold

Fields of Gold

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

State of Blue
State of Blue

State of Blue

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. blue teal aqua white yellow orange navy Red green chartreuse It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Ray of Light 1
Ray of Light 1

Ray of Light 1

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Clarity 2
Clarity 2

Clarity 2

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Lineto I (Abstract Encaustic and Collage Painting on Linen)
Lineto I (Abstract Encaustic and Collage Painting on Linen)

Lineto I (Abstract Encaustic and Collage Painting on Linen)

By Alaina Enslen

Located in Hudson, NY

"Lineto I" made by Hudson Valley artist, Alaina Enslen, in 2025 Encaustic, dyed fabrics, and paper mounted on panel 36 x 48 x 2 inches unframed, sides reveal raw panel and wrapped fa...

Category

2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Encaustic, Linen, Monotype

"Dumpster 7-3911", Contemporary, Abstract, Blue, Encaustic and Oil Painting
"Dumpster 7-3911", Contemporary, Abstract, Blue, Encaustic and Oil Painting

"Dumpster 7-3911", Contemporary, Abstract, Blue, Encaustic and Oil Painting

By Tracy Spadafora

Located in Franklin, MA

Tracy Spadafora's “Dumpster 7-3911”, is from her series “Left Behind: Visual Histories”. This contemporary encaustic and oil painting consists of bright blue, brown, black and white ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Oil, Wood Panel

Green Mesa
Green Mesa

Green Mesa

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Hushed Moment 3

Hushed Moment 3

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Pure Joy
Pure Joy

Pure Joy

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Free More, Painting, ex Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection, Signed
Free More, Painting, ex Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection, Signed

Free More, Painting, ex Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection, Signed

By Pat Adams

Located in New York, NY

Pat Adams Free More, 1989 Acrylic and encaustic painting with varnish on paper laid down on canvas Hand signed and dated on the upper left front Original artist's frame included This...

Category

1980s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite

Ebb and Flow 3
Ebb and Flow 3

Ebb and Flow 3

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Hushed Moment 1

Hushed Moment 1

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Hushed Moment 5

Hushed Moment 5

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Veil of Dusk
Veil of Dusk

Veil of Dusk

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Ocean 1

Ocean 1

By Mary Long

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Encaustic

"Waiting", Original Encaustic Figurative Abstract, Figure in Warm Red Palette
"Waiting", Original Encaustic Figurative Abstract, Figure in Warm Red Palette

"Waiting", Original Encaustic Figurative Abstract, Figure in Warm Red Palette

Located in Carmel, CA

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Wood Panel, Stretcher Bars, Paper

Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape in Blue & Yellow Encaustic by Regina Quinn)
Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape in Blue & Yellow Encaustic by Regina Quinn)

Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape in Blue & Yellow Encaustic by Regina Quinn)

By Regina Quinn

Located in Hudson, NY

Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape of Winter Forest in Blue & Yellow Encaustic) by Regina Quinn 2024 encaustic, India ink, and oil with wax on panel 6 x 6 unframed / 8 x 8 framed "...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

India Ink, Encaustic, Oil, Panel

Bannack Horses
Bannack Horses

Bannack Horses

By Theodore Waddell

Located in Bozeman, MT

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 ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Arrow Creek Horses
Arrow Creek Horses

Arrow Creek Horses

By Theodore Waddell

Located in Bozeman, MT

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 ...

Category

1990s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

"Butch (Floriferous Squirrel)" - Oil and Encaustic Painting on Canvas
"Butch (Floriferous Squirrel)" - Oil and Encaustic Painting on Canvas

"Butch (Floriferous Squirrel)" - Oil and Encaustic Painting on Canvas

Located in Denver, CO

Carrie Goller's (US based) "Butch (Floriferous Squirrel)" (2025) is an original, handmade mixed media painting made with oil and encaustic paint. This piece measures 9.75 x 9.75 inch...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Oil

Winter Berry Diptych: Abstract Encaustic Painting, Dark Red on Beige Background
Winter Berry Diptych: Abstract Encaustic Painting, Dark Red on Beige Background

Winter Berry Diptych: Abstract Encaustic Painting, Dark Red on Beige Background

By Allyson Levy

Located in Hudson, NY

Abstract encaustic painting with brown branches with dark red berries against a light beige background "Winter Berry Diptych" made by Hudson Valley based artist, Allyson Levy, in 201...

Category

2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Organic Material, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Wood Panel

Seeing (abstract, encaustic on panel, pastel, green)
Seeing (abstract, encaustic on panel, pastel, green)

Seeing (abstract, encaustic on panel, pastel, green)

By Lisa Pressman

Located in New York, NY

Lisa Pressman earned her BA in Art from Douglas College, Rutgers University and an MFA from Bard College. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, incl...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Wood Panel

Wallpaper 2: Abstract Green Encaustic Painting of Yellow Flower Petals on Panel
Wallpaper 2: Abstract Green Encaustic Painting of Yellow Flower Petals on Panel

Wallpaper 2: Abstract Green Encaustic Painting of Yellow Flower Petals on Panel

By Allyson Levy

Located in Hudson, NY

Abstract painting with green encaustic and light yellow flower petals on wood panel "Wallpaper 2" made by Allyson Levy in 2020 encaustic and flower petals on wood panel, 24 x 24 x 2 ...

Category

2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Organic Material, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Wood Panel, Pigment

The Navigator (Large)

The Navigator (Large)

By Michael David

Located in Phoenix, AZ

encaustic on Dibond b. 1954, Reno Nevada Abstract painter Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic, which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax. He discovered encau...

Category

2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Wax, Encaustic

Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Neo-Expressionist painting depicts a young woman in luminous light. Encaustic on canvas, 14 x 17 inches. Unsigned. Minor paint loss along edge.

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

'Forms in Charcoal and Jade', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, SFMFA, CWS
'Forms in Charcoal and Jade', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, SFMFA, CWS

'Forms in Charcoal and Jade', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, SFMFA, CWS

By Robert George Gilberg

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated '58'. Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the Oakland Art Center during t...

Category

1950s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Gouache, Laid Paper

Dawn Landscape, impressionistic landscape painting

Dawn Landscape, impressionistic landscape painting

By Katharine Dufault

Located in New York, NY

Artist Statement: Painting is a meditation and a kind of alchemy in which I concentrate and transform my feelings and memories into something material that can be experienced in various ways by others. In this recent body of work, I draw on my deep love of nature: the impressions from my new rural life Upstate and in the Berkshires...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Panel, Encaustic

Euphorbic 9: Abstract Encaustic Painting with Organic Green Mixed Material
Euphorbic 9: Abstract Encaustic Painting with Organic Green Mixed Material

Euphorbic 9: Abstract Encaustic Painting with Organic Green Mixed Material

By Allyson Levy

Located in Hudson, NY

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 ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Organic Material, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Wood Panel

Hushed Moment 4

Hushed Moment 4

By Amy Van Winkle

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Encaustic on panel. It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

Eklund Roundup 12

Eklund Roundup 12

By Theodore Waddell

Located in Bozeman, MT

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 ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Monida

Monida

By Theodore Waddell

Located in Bozeman, MT

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 ...

Category

1990s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Geometric Abstraction
Geometric Abstraction

Geometric Abstraction

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

A unique, beautifully composed, large-scale geometric abstraction encaustic, with fresh colors, on fibrous buff, wove paper; the image extending ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

White Breezes & Blue Skies: Abstract Encaustic Painting with Teal & Beige Fabric
White Breezes & Blue Skies: Abstract Encaustic Painting with Teal & Beige Fabric

White Breezes & Blue Skies: Abstract Encaustic Painting with Teal & Beige Fabric

By Alaina Enslen

Located in Hudson, NY

Abstract encaustic painting with dyed teal, indigo, white and beige fabrics "White Breezes & Blue Skies" made by Hudson Valley artist, Alaina Enslen, in 2022 Encaustic & dyed fabrics mounted on panel 17 x 26 x 2 inches unframed, sides reveal raw panel and wrapped fabric Excellent condition, ready to hang Lightweight Signed, verso This abstract minimalist painting is made with repurposed pieces of found fabrics in complementary tones of teal, indigo, and beige on an encaustic white background. The fabrics, which are adhered to a light wood Birch panel and layered with a subtle layer of encaustic, are arranged in a whimsical motif that accentuates the spontaneous dyed patterns. The layers of fabric and encaustic create a textured, impasto surface. About the artist: Alaina Enslen expresses her artistic vision through repurposed fabrics infused with beeswax. The Cornwall-On-Hudson based artist collects pieces of textile that evoke memory, tradition, or experience like cherished worn heirlooms, discarded clothes, and religious garments, which are then assembled on panel in an abstract patchwork. Favoring fabrics with a neutral or subtle cool palette, she flattens and frays the material to explore color, form, and lines, reimaging used cloth...

Category

2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Encaustic

Summer Moon
Summer Moon

Summer Moon

By Mary Long

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Encaustic

Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone - Encaustic Snowscape Painting

Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone - Encaustic Snowscape Painting

By Jeff Aeling

Located in Chicago, IL

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Encaustic Paintings

Materials

Panel, Encaustic

Encaustic paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Encaustic paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, red, blue, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Amy Van Winkle, Kay Hartung, Andrew Francis, and Mary Long. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Encaustic paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available