First Thursday meet the artist: Marji Thompson of Lake Forest Park

Meet June's Featured Artist: 

Marji Thompson (Encaustic Painting) 

June 5 - 4:00 - 8:00 (open house)

Garden Essentia

20152 Ballinger Way NE

Shoreline, WA  98155

206-453-3920

Come enjoy a refreshment and meet Lake Forest Park encaustic painter; Marji Thompson. Marji's art will be on display and available for purchase. She will also be giving demos of her wax painting. 

Encaustic painting by Marji Thompson

 

Art has been a part of my world since the day I was born. I grew up with it and it is deeply woven into the fabric of me. I have been drawing, and painting and creating all of my life. I just have to. There aren't words to explain the nature of the deep need for me to create with my hands. Its much like taking a breath, there is no question.

I haven't always been a painter. I have dabbled with other creative interests along the way. And, even the times when life has landed me in a spot with no creative outlet, creativity has waited patiently inside.

My art, at this point in my life, has taken the form of painting and photography. Currently, I have landed in the arms of encaustic painting, an old and ancient way of placing pigments on surfaces using a mélange of beeswax and demar resin. Heated to 200F, the wax warms my creative soul as I put brush to surface.

When I sit down and create - its like opening a book.. one without any writing, yet the story is there waiting to be told. I never really know what will be my subject until I get started. It begins with layers of wax, plain and colored, textured and smooth. I let each layer build upon each other until the painting begins to tell its story and an image comes to the surface. Faces, people, animals, birds - I don't question what comes - I just paint.