About Anne Kirsten Fjeld

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Anne Kirsten Fjeld is a Pacific Northwest encaustic intermedia artist based in Union, Washington. Drawing from a lifelong creative practice that spans visual art, photography, and writing, she creates layered works exploring memory, transformation, connection, and the traces we leave behind.

As a young writer, Fjeld was selected to attend the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts creative writing program, where she studied with nationally recognized authors and developed a lasting appreciation for storytelling and imagery. Today, those influences continue to surface throughout her visual work, where photographs, sketches, text, and found materials emerge through translucent layers of wax.

Fjeld is an active member of International Encaustic Artists, a participant in the Enso Circle Residency, and a recipient of the Melissa M. Lackman International Encaustic Artists Mentoring Grant. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in private collections in the United States and abroad.

My work emerges through a layered process of wax, pigment, and fire, where earlier states are not erased but held within the surface. I work in encaustic intermedia, allowing material to guide the evolution of each piece as much as intention.

I am drawn to the space between—where memory, instinct, and transformation intersect. These are not fixed places, but shifting states that take form through image, gesture, and atmosphere. At times the work leans toward the figurative, at others toward the symbolic or abstract, but always it is rooted in an inquiry into what is carried, what softens, and what remains.

Fire is both a material and a metaphor in my practice. It reveals, fuses, obscures, and preserves. Through this process, the work becomes a quiet record of experience—layered, altered, and still present beneath the surface.

Sometimes, the muse does not arrive from elsewhere. Sometimes, she is the act of paying attention itself.

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Anne Kirsten Fjeld

Union, WA

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