Our Artists

Artists & Instructors

Bridget Benton

Bridget Benton has been a working and teaching artist for over 20 years. She makes extensive use of collage, layering techniques, and monoprints of natural materials in her work.

Erin Keane

Erin Keane is an artist working primarily with photography and encaustic beeswax. She is drawn to allover pattern, repetitive elements, and symmetrical balance, all of which quiet the mind and refresh the soul.

Kana Clark

Kana Clark is known for creating works within the realm of all things outer space. Combining her love of nebulae and encaustic painting, Kana is one of the first painters to depict nebulae and exoplanets in this medium.

Kathryn Bevier

Kathryn Bevier is an artist and educator, traveling throughout the US, Canada and Ireland to provide learning opportunities. She developed over 60 custom and specialty paint colors for Enkaustikos.

Linda Robertson

Linda Robertson is an artist, author, and art instructor. Her rich, multi-layered paintings celebrate how color and light interplay with nature. She creates imagined landscapes with lush botanical forms and vibrant colors.

Lora Murphy

Lora Murphy is a distinguished encaustic portrait painter. In addition to her art practice, Lora is a fervent educator, conducting workshops and sharing her knowledge about the encaustic medium with budding artists.

Mel Williams

Mel Williams has worked with encaustic for many years and developed her style through experimentation and play. Using many tools such as; soldering irons, a hot stylus, pen tips, heat guns large and small and her trusty blow torch.

Pamela Caughey

Rather than literal renderings of her environment, Pamela Caughey strives to create emotional content. Her paintings express something that can’t be verbalized, only visualized and experienced.

Pamela Smith Hudson

Pamela Smith Hudson is a mixed media artist, based in Los Angeles whose work explores combining printmaking and painting to build textured surfaces. She has collaborated with the Broad Museum

Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch is an Innovative developer of Encaustikits and Encausticamp. Her love for the medium translates into her teaching, and students' worldwide benefit from a passionate, engaging workshop experience.

Shary Bartlett

Shary Bartlett is an award-winning encaustic and mixed media paintings and sculptures are held in collections internationally. Shary teaches as part of the internationally acclaimed online encaustic Masterclass, Painting with Fire