Encaustic Painting Workshop (Adults and Youth 12+ with a Registered Adult)
Adult Intensive | Available
Explore encaustic painting for the first time or return to expand your skills. You will work with opaque and transparent colors, layering, using stencils, and creating patterns using hot wax.
If under 18, student must be accompanied by a registered adult. Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible. This class is not wheelchair accessible due to a set of stairs. On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.
Lynda Ray
Lynda Ray received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA in 1987.That year she also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in ME where she studied under Agnes Martin and Joseph Campbell. Thoughts she references are “perfection is in the mind” from Agnes and the “work parallels the experience” from her professor Rob Moore. Ray has been awarded artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Colony, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY. She has received the 2018 CultureWorks Artist Grant, as well as fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Since 1987 her work has been widely exhibited and collected. She lives and works in Richmond, Virginia and is represented by Space Gallery in Denver and Page Bond Gallery in Richmond.
Website: www.lyndarayart.com