A day in the studio...

Preparing to mount some linen...

All prepped and ready to hit the studio...

The colours of the day...

First stage... Pastel on raw linen...

And the magic begins as the colours mix...

Time to heat up the wax...

First layer of encaustic medium on and fused...

Setting up a little photo shoot for the next stage...

Photo shoot felt stilted and fake... Hopefully more time playing will help uncover some authenticity...

Blah! Heat gun just died - it does that sometimes... Must be a sign to start working with the flame...

Contemplating an image...

Line work...

Burnishing the transfer...

Revealing the transfer, now to fuse...

Not yet titled

Encaustic and transfer on mounted linen

600 x 600mm

2011

  

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New work…

Fear and Sadness

Kylie Marie Stevens

Encaustic, pastel and transfer of mounted linen

600 x 600mm

2011

I can feel a new series bubbling away within me here…  

 I feel that I will be able to developed a “language “with this style which will make my work more “readable”… 

I’m excited, but also apprehensive about putting so much of what is in side “out there” to be looked upon…  

I feel it’s time to be more open… 

There are more changes on the way as I begin to shed the protective layers…

Tea Taking Paraphernalia

Tea Taking Paraphernalia

Kylie Marie Stevens

Encaustic, tea and spoon on mounted linen

600 x 600mm

2011

$250

The opening night of Infused is tonight at The Swich Contemporary Art Space.  I have been in and had a look at the show and it looks fantastic.  It was so much fun working on this piece and contemplating all things tea.

This is the artist statement that accompanies my piece...

“Tea Taking Paraphernalia”

While exploring tea for the Infused exhibition I began contemplating the parallels between tea and other drugs. 

Both the taking of tea and drugs are often steeped in ritual, both provide comfort, become ingrained in habit and require specific paraphernalia. 

Similarities can be seen between the chopped leaves at the centre of both the tea and marijuana rituals.  Connections are also present between the spoons used in tea making and in the cooking up of injectable drugs. 

“Tea Taking Paraphernalia” is a mixed media encaustic painting, created using real tea for the pigment.  Tea leaves float within the texture and the used spoon adds a sculptural element, hinting at the parallels between tea and drug taking.

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If your local or in the area during July I hope you can get along and see the exhibition in person.