Laura Wait is the one of the online artists that I have decided to study further. She often uses words as images as a centra part of her paintings, art books, and prints. She has been inspired by Asian calligraphyand also modern artists that use letterforms in non traditional ways. She often uses encaustic to create obscured surfaces with layers of ink handwriting on Japanese handmade paper. She also uses oil sticks on her painting to add to the interest to her work. Her work has the feeling of a historival surfac on an ancient wall layered over periods layered over a period of centuries.
Laura Wait makes the following statement regarding her work,” The transparency of layers created with encaustic and the ability to uncover lost imagery is very appealing to me and is central to the intuitive methods I use in developing my paintings and books. My work evolves in a sereis whether the pages of a book or group of paintings, investigating visual aspects of a symbol or idea. The painting and visual aspects of a symbol or idea. The paintings and the books cross fertilize each other and sometimes I am uncertain whether the handwriting pages may become a book or a painting.
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