One more image from my best Mothers Day ever spent with my husband and gorgeous daughter Alana Quinn @aquinsta visiting invitational shows that I am a part of - one at @gallery40pok and this one that just closed at the @wallkillrivercenter River Art Center curated by the awesome @alainaenslen !
What a joy and privilege it is to paint, to exhibit, and to be a part of the vibrant community of artist who call the Hudson Valley of New York their home!
But even more...how can I be SO fortunate to have such a beloved husband and daughter!??!?
Despite the stupidity and total immorality of our world at this moment of time under a doddering tyrant fascist in the US White House who acts like an unbridled emperor hell-bent on destroying our democracy and all that so many have given their lives for over the past several centuries in efforts to achieve a more egalitarian world, enabled by spineless sycophants who grovel at his feet...well, somehow I find a way to carry that utter rage and disgust while still embracing joy.
Feels really weird though.
Calling all wax-media artists based in New York State!
I'm honored and delighted to serve as juror for Fire & Form, an exhibition at Rochester Contemporary that is in partnership with International Encaustic Artists most recently created chapter, Rochester/FLX!
This promises to be a very special exhibit of the diversity of beautiful works created by New York State wax-media artists!
Here's the link to copy and paste for info and to apply:
/exhibi.../fireandform/
You'll see that they can't accept shipped work...however... message me about this and I'll try to help make it happen if your work is accepted!
(You can ship smallish works to me and I'll deliver and ship back after the show!)
@_woodstockschoolofart@iea_encaustic@roco137@ehinderoconnie@lida_riedlinger@anne.b.mccune@patdeluca.art
That's me in the middle, beaming on Mothers Day with my beautiful daughter @aquinsta during our visit to @gallery40pok where I have work on view as part of their lovely Beyond Boundaries exhibition!
Thank you @pbaristudio and @maryannglassphoto for hosting this very special exhibit!!
And special thanks to @rfpaints for making the most fabulous encaustics and Pigment Sticks that allow me to bring my visions to life!
I've revisited this encaustic and ink painting inspired by cherry blossoms - I felt the previous version was "too pretty" and I quite disliked it.
Today I revisited the surface with light touches of @rfpaints oil Pigment Sticks and did a bit more scratching into the surface with an engraving tool.
I'm starting to like it.
16 x 12, Encaustics, India inks, and Oils with Wax
In my upcoming workshops at the @_woodstockschoolofart . I'll be focusing on the combination of encaustics, oil Pigment Sticks, and other oil paints.
There's still room in both my 2-day Intro to Oils and Wax and my 4-day Best of Both Worlds: Combining Oils and Wax
See link in bio or copy and paste:
https://linktr.ee/regina.b.quinn
#encaustic #encausticpainting
The journey with this piece continues...
As I work to create that sense of quiet wonder I've experienced in the deep woods in early spring, I find that creating the rocky foreground is particularly delightful...the deep textures, the dark earthy colors, and that touch of a sense of mosses growing on the areas that receive and hold the moisture...
Spring Whispered is a 40 x 20" encaustic painting, really a bas-relief sculpture, in progress...
Spring Whispered
The latest iteration of this 40 x 20" encaustic with ink.
It's an interesting challenge to attempt to capture both the quietness and joyousness of spring's emergence in the northern woods.
Will let this rest overnight and see what I think in the morning!
I think my favorite part is the moss-covered rocky foreground and how it feels as though centuries of spring ice melt have shaped that zig-zagging pathway.
📣 New Retreat Announcement! 📣
We’re absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Regina Quinn back to EOM in 2027!
Painting Shadows of the Wind:
Early Spring Along the Mulranny Shore
March 5th - 12th, 2027
Working in encaustics and ink, we’ll draw our inspiration from the shifting skies, restless waters, and first stirrings of spring flora and fauna along one of the most luminously beautiful coastlines on our planet.
This retreat is for encaustic artists at any level of experience who are ready to push their work to new heights and directions.
Link in bio for further info and registration or at: /retreats-and-classes/regina-quinn-workshop
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#essenceofmulranny #artretreat #encaustic #ireland #art
Here's the upper half of my Metamorphosis diptych.
This deeply textural and sculptural work was inspired by the many beautiful photographs my daughter, Alana Quinn @aquinsta , shared with me during the pandemic when Brood X Cicadas were emerging in the DC area...Such an emergence of life amidst the dark days of COVID.
Thrilled to display this diptych at the Instructors Exhibition at the @_woodstockschoolofart , opening on June 13.
And for those of you who are in my WSA Accretion workshop in August...you'll see this wild work in person!
Working this stony foreground in encaustics and India inks...
Grateful to @amy_krane_color for her requests for assistance with a stony foreground for her work during our Essence of Spring workshop at the @_woodstockschoolofart that turned out so beautifully!
Each question that an artist asks stimulates my own thinking and I am so grateful for that collaboration!
And, really, I just want to say that there are no formulas...you strive for a sense of something and then grapple with how to get there. And the path is full of progress and setbacks...all of which have some kind of lesson to impart...the setbacks most of all.
If nothing else, I hope I can impart that idea to all my students!
And, wherever this piece finally ends up, I'm really happy with this stony foreground!! It makes me want to do a series based on all the mysterious stone walls one comes upon in the woods - so full of history and stories of the land and the people who lived upon it.
Detail of my previous post after working more encaustic layers and India inks over the surface...a bit darker and bluer...we'll see where it all ends!
I dripped lots of black (and magenta and blue) from the top, allowing the drips to trickle down in a tree-like fashion amidst the accreted textures of the woods...then, after drying overnight, I added more encaustics and finally some blue ink spritzed with alcohol and lightly brushed across the surface...
I just do all of this intuitively and keep building and scraping and scratching and dripping and splashing until I feel like I've arrived at a point that makes my heart sing.
How to share that process in my workshops? I'm not quite sure because the process is different every time, yet there are fundamental ideas that are consistent...
Value, hue, texture, translucency, luminosity...yet you have to paint with wildness that is at once focused and uncontrolled.
Looking forward to my Encaustic Accretion Workshop in August at the @_woodstockschoolofart in partnership with @rfpaints !
While that workshop is sold out, you can have your name added to the waitlist AND there are spots available for my sessions focused on combining encaustics and oils! See link in bio!
I feel like I'm entering a Tolkienesque world in this rather large 40" x 20" work in progress...
It's a piece that took an unexpected turn and, with each new stroke of encaustic paint, I feel as if I'm working my way into a mossy world of soft, earthy vegetation and fragrant delights...So sensually pleasing!
It's kind of a transition piece between my Essence of Spring workshop and my upcoming Accretion workshop at the @_woodstockschoolofart !
