Artists: Mary Lee

Mary Lee focuses on abstract painting in encaustic, a process of layering colors of wax over wax, scraping back to highlight the shades beneath and adding more to enhance the luminosity. Each layer of wax has its own story: a time, a place, a sound recalled. A fusion of color, collage, sometimes found objects. A lick of flame from the torch, a brush of color from the molten wax, layer after layer until it’s complete.