Inspiration: Lynn Basa

I don't remember now where I first came across the work of Lynn Basa 

but the sensory feeling of being pulled into her paintings is just as strong 

today as it was then. Have you seen her works on paper before?

She uses a technique known as Encaustic Painting, which is basically 

adding pigments to wax (in Basa's case it's beeswax) and then manipulating

the pigments to create form or abstractions. When I first saw it I thought it was a 

kind of fabric painting medium with silk... I guess it has that same 'wet work' feel ;)

I often feel when mixing up fabric paints that I'm creating a brew of some kind; it 

has that vague culinary dynamic to it that always makes me smile. Nice to note 

that I'm perhaps not alone in these thoughts, as Basa has entitled her pieces 

fanciful names like Blanc Mange, Silver Cake and White Cake :)

Anyway, if you're interested in bio details: Lynn Basa lives in Chicago and teaches 

in the Sculpture Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She's a 

prominent public artist and is also the author of The Artist's Guide to Public Art.

But, for me, it's her works on paper that really *pop* and sizzle :)

You can see more of Lynn Basa's works on her website, which is gorgeously 

entitled Other People's Pixels :)