Anne Stine
Purcellville, VA
My passion is creating mixed media encaustic and cold wax contemporary paintings capturing the beauty of nature.
MessageANNE STINE, Artist
American artist Anne Stine is best known for her encaustic mixed media paintings that reflect an intimate, human connection with the natural world. She adds a contemporary twist to landscape painting by combining oils with encaustic beeswax medium, then fuses each layer using heat onto a wood panel. Visually, her paintings are lively and instantly recognizable, capturing the aesthetics of serene environments through her brilliant use of color and texture. “I want people to see nature through the eyes of a child, full of awe and wonder, to help recapture the often forgotten connection to Mother Earth.” After a career in arts marketing, Anne followed her long-time passion for painting, and now exhibits her work all over the world, including the permanent collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art in New Mexico.
Statement
My work expresses the joy and awe I feel for nature, and my emotional connection to the world. Nature is my sanctuary where I can catch my breath and reflect on the spiritual bond I feel when I am totally immersed in its beauty. With today’s growing apathy towards the environment, I feel it is vitally important to glorify our natural home and care for it. Creating from the heart, I bring attention to the codependent relationship between man and planet Earth with the intention of relaying the message that in loving her, we love ourselves.
I chose encaustic paint made from a combination of beeswax, natural resin, and pigment because I like the idea of using natural materials to deepen the connection between the subject and myself. The wild, unpredictable nature of wax allows me to express the intensity, fluidity, and varied textures found in nature more realistically than any other medium. When heated to a high temperature, the molten wax moves like honey and I wield a blow torch to guide it where I want it to go while tilting the wood panel base. There is something exciting about working with a medium invented 1,000 years ago and witnessing how the painting mysteriously takes shape through the creative dance of layering, reheating, and further manipulating the wax and mixed media.
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