Summer.........and this too shall pass.....
As professor at a modest-sized university, I enjoy my job and gain knowledge and satisfaction from working with talented colleagues and eager young students. As much as I like my work and the position I have earned, it is always glorious when spring semester ends and the rains, flowers and temps of May flood the environment with delicious sounds and smells. The first week or so after school ends I tend to bask in this freedom and look forward to what seems to be a long stretch of summer before early August when the emails return with numerous duties and concerns.
I am grateful for that summer break and I do not take those times lightly. In my past career life I worked at jobs year-round, so I know how precious a summer break can be to feed the soul and rejuvenate the mind. Once I get acclimated to the new schedule, I get started on my lengthy to-do lists that include miscellaneous appointments, repairs here and there, a bit of travel, reading, reading, farmers markets, boating/laking/fishing, yoga/workout, and mostly a schedule for concentrated time in the studio.
This summer I have had a good and enthusiastic experience with the work I am developing. I started in May on a group of 24 X 24" panels with a collaging process using wax monotypes and encaustic medium. Those have been well received and several will be included in up-coming exhibitions this fall. While working on the panels I needed to develop more monotypes on papers so I switched from the panels to the hotplate. Working with this monotype process, I am highly attracted to the qualities of that bring drawing, painting and printing into one activity. Being able to move the heated liquid on a warm surface just like paint, then marking and incising into that pool of wax and pigment, and quickly placing fibrous papers over the wet surface to grab the liquid before it sets, is a good feeling. It often reminds me of when I was printing film photography and would watch the paper give rise to images in the liquid developer. It typically renders a thrill, sort of magical.
Currently I am scheduling exhibitions of
The Savored Line, and would love to hear from you if this work would enhance an upcoming project you are developing
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All work ©2015 Jane Allen Nodine.
Enjoy looking !
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| 24 X 18" wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| 24 X 18" wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| 32 X 21" wax & pigment on Masa paper © 2015 |
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| 32 X 21" wax & pigment on Masa paper © 2015 |
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| 40 X 25" wax & pigment on KOZO paper © 2015 |
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| DETAIL, wax & pigment on KOZO paper © 2015 |
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| 24 X 18" wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| DETAIL, wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| 24 X 18" wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| 24 X 18" wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| 24 X 18" wax & pigment on Washi paper © 2015 |
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| 26 X 20" wax & pigment on Rives lt wt paper © 2015 |
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| DETAIL, wax & pigment on Rives Lt Wt paper © 2015 |
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| 40 X 25" wax & pigment on KOZO paper © 2015 |
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| 40 X 25" wax & pigment on KOZO paper © 2015 |
Oh yes, not to forget........on the water and deep dish peach cobbler with SC peaches!!
