Wanda Ann Kinnaman

Wanda Ann Kinnaman’s encaustic mixed media work makes connections between humankind and the environment through the exploration of spaces and places. Her creativity is motivated to seek and reflect upon the discoveries of solitude and healing she finds in her journeys. The natural subject matter is absorbed, contemplated, and collected through photography and sketches that are observed from hiking and traveling.

In the studio, she reimagines her observations, sketches, and collections into hand-rendered digital composites that develop into paintings that dance a finely tuned balance of the ancient media of encaustic (beeswax) along with traditional media as she works with hand-painted layers of wax, oil pigments, inks, and other media such as metal leafing to cocoon and transform the work with elements of dream-like qualities and layers of textured meanings.

As she explores these concepts, she shares her experiences and findings with others to learn new ways of seeing life with eyes that look deeper and make connections to the created world through memory and mystery of the places found on the roads less traveled along with those so familiar they are overlooked.