Erika Adkins creates two-dimensional works in both acrylic and encaustic. Her pieces rely on layering colors, textures, and meanings, often the result of multiple paintings on a single
surface.

Whether it be welding, photography, acrylic or encaustic painting, I find art serves as an effective medium to explore themes relating to the political, natural and built environment. I am an East Bay-based artist who explores these themes by integrating color relationships, texture, composition and space.

I’m a retired Bay Area photojournalist now incorporating my photography into encaustic art.  At the beginning of covid I moved from San Francisco back to Santa Cruz when I discovered encaustic and fell in love with it.

Kim captures the feeling of connectedness in nature in process oriented art relating to her formal training as a metalsmith and work as a midwife. She lives and paints in Oakland and continues to work in community health.

Martha Colson is from Montgomery Alabama, but just moved to Santa Rosa California to be with her daughter and grandchildren.She looks to California nature for inspiration. 

An artist, curator, creative connector, and maker living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has spent her life working in the visual arts.

I am a retired family physician living in Pleasanton, CA. I am learning how to incorporate my love of mixed media into encaustic arts. 

Gold’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the Chicago area as well as in California, Massachusetts and New York.  In the summer of 2002, he completed a chimpanzee mural as part of the Hubbard Street Mural Project in Chicago.

Born and raised in Israel and moved to the US as a young adult. 

Growing up, Goren always created and observed art but only as an adult she recognized art as her calling, to be an artist.

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I'm an artist & outdoor enthusiast living in Alameda, CA. Encaustic painting allows me to 'tinker' with elements of nature, layers, & texture and explore themes of memory in my work. 

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I am a mixed media encaustic artist incorporating my own photographs and oil paints into my work.

I’ve been working in encaustic medium for about 12 years, and am captivated by this ancient medium using beeswax.

Growing up in rural coastal Marin County nature has always been an important part of my life.

I select materials for their unpredictability and ability to change, making them partners in creation. With encaustic printing and painting, thought and action unite as with improvisational music or dance.

 I live in Santa Rosa, CA where I was born and raised. After retiring from kindergarten teaching I started focusing on my own art again.

Hildie is a mixed-media artist and professional restoration ecologist based in Sacramento, California.

Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in Marin County, California. My career was teaching Art and English in Northwest and California public schools. I love to make things.

Encaustic painting instructor, working artist and advocate for the arts in Walnut Creek, California. My paintings explore personal stories with themes of healing, hope, gratitude, and human connection.

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I am an artist and designer living in Santa Cruz, California. The inspiration for my work comes from travel and my memories of the unique and undisturbed places I have been to as well as the inspiring landscape of the Pacific coast.

I am a quirky abstract mixed media artist residing in the picturesque town of Benicia, CA. My work is a delightful exploration of textures, colors, and forms that invite viewers to embark on a journey of imagination and introspection.

As an artist, I am fascinated by the merging of wax, pigment and heat. Inspired by nature, I enjoy capturing the essence of landscapes, both real and imaginary. I invite you to journey with me into realms where texture, color, and form converge. 

 I am an emerging encaustic and mixed media artist, with a studio and home in Pescadero, California. 
While retired from my roles as a biotechnology executive, a lead coach of "Girls on the Run" for 3rd- 5th-grade girls, and co-founder and chair of Madrone Arts Gallery, my current passions are creating art and supporting other artists.

Based in Benicia, CA,  I draw inspiration from physical, spiritual, and emotional memory. Through the use of art materials, these journeys, turning points, and the inevitable cyclical return to new beginnings, are expressed. Abstracts and seascapes compose the majority of my work.

I am an artist who is also an art educator. World-wide circumstances have dictated that I develop my digital skills and am now teaching online courses in addition to on location classes and workshops.