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Another step in the right direction
Every Fall, Georgetown hosts Art Hop. Georgetown Art Works, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts in the City of Georgetown, sponsors this month-long show in downtown Georgetown. In for a penny, in for a pound, I have submitted the following for their consideration to include:
I chose each of these because they represent to me the three major facets of my art and what I love to do - pure expressionism of the natural world, meaningful metaphors for my life, and mixed media amalgamations of powerful images and artifacts. Maybe the judges will appreciate my perspective and give me an opportunity to be seen. Let's hope so!
Encaustic Masters: Inspirational Voices Entry
At the IEA retreat in Portland, OR in September, there will be a show set up for a month at the Columbia River Gallery in Troutdale. The show is juried, or rather, somewhat juried, as all retreat participants get at least one piece in the show. So that means, because I am going to the retreat I am going to have my first public showing of a piece! Since they have to accept one, it doesn't mean much, but we do get to submit a total of five pieces for the jury to select, should they want to see more. I am trying not to get my hopes too high, here. So, here are the pieces I submitted:
Wish me Luck!!
Welcome to Virginia Headley Maserang Fine Art
Today is the grand opening of this website. I hope that it will be a long and happy journey between us.
I am an emerging visual artist living in central Texas with my husband, daughter and two cats. With a career in public health, my "professional" life has always been balanced by a pursuit of some sort or other in the fine arts. For many years I was a musician and jewelry artist, but always yearned for an expressive visual medium. In February 2010, I found that medium. Encaustic. A wondrous blend of fragrant beeswax and fortifying damar resin, the luminous qualities of encaustic captured my heart. Years of magpie collecting of ephemera and other fragmentary bits of life would at last pay off in the unifying meld of wax and heat. My untold gigabytes of stored photographs finally to be given a forum for public viewing. And the color and texture possibilities - oh my!
I am enjoying all the facets of expression that encaustic has to offer, but I am mostly focusing on two-dimensional works at this time. In this blog I hope to share the joys and tribulations of new experiences working in this medium, share fabulous artists that I meet, either in person or virtually, and provide links to helpful resources for artists as I come across them.
