From the series Celeste and Sea
Enter a New Day
Year
2023
Medium
Paintings
Reference
b97d7949
San Diego artist Shima Shanti is an Encaustic painter in the ancient art form of painting with beeswax and fusing with fire. Layers of purified beeswax mixed with all-natural earth pigments and a fir-tree sap called damar resin are painted on Russian Baltic birch panel then fused with the flame of a torch. The translucent beeswax medium creates patina and texture that is storied and luminous. This is an original one-of-a-kind Encaustic artwork derived from the artist's own observation and imagination.
1954 Coronado California, United States
Address
San Diego,
Peace Waters represents career artists who focus on the unique use of rare art mediums; in particular Encaustic, pastel pencil, cattle marker, venetian plaster, and the creative use of oil, and acrylic. We exhibit year-round at the most celebrated and prestigious contemporary fine art fairs in New York, the Hamptons, Palm Beach and Miami, Los Angeles, San Di...