Linda Lenart is an encaustic artist and instructor who is known for her inventive spirit, and her ability to push encaustic wax into new territories.
Her encaustic work reflects her degrees in dance, sculpture and fine art, her decade working with encaustic wax, and her love of interdisciplinary art.
Linda creates her own visual and kinesthetic language through vibrant layered color and buried marks. Her paintings are sculptural in form and reflect the echoing patterns of nature with their stacked reflective intaglio, playful brush stroke and scraping, reverse Sgraffito imagery, and obscured transparent relief surfaces that utilize unusual techniques such as wax peels, textured embeds, accretion patches and smokey pigment rubs.
These techniques she teaches as Retreat Workshops in the Luminous Encaustics Studio located in Oberlin, Ohio.
In her retreat workshops, she guides students into letting go into the intuitive play of wax therapy, to unleash their inherent creativity, while opening their understanding of color theory, the elements of design, and the principles of art, for improved technique, therapeutic release and connection to a community of other creatives.
She has worked as a consultant to galleries, art restorers and as a mentor to other artists, bringing her mastery of encaustic painting to artists of all mediums.
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Hello Linda,
I am interestd in a marriage of encaustic wax and photography. I have several photographs I would like to experiment with using various techniques involving encaustic medium. I have looked over your website and I am willing to travel to ohio for your tutelage. I have the ability to reprint on a paper stock you may suggest should this be necessary. The key question however, is not the lead time for any class preparation but whether there will be a photo/encaustic workshop or class at all….fingers crossed !! Please advise. Warm Regards, JC
I’ll keep that in mind John! I have taught photographers the art of encaustic painting before, so I will plan on doing it again for you. Yes, making a print on paper is the way to start, so get some prints made and email me, and we’ll set a date. Thank you for choosing me as your instructor.
Just attended my first exhaustive workshop with no experience whatsoevrr!. I even had to lookup the definition of exhaustive art and couldn’t quite grasp the concept by reading about it, but oh my what a great experience to explore this medium with the lively and vibrant energy of Linda. She made me feel very comfortable and encouraged my creative juices to flow and I was so happy with my pieces! Thank you Linda for such a wonderful and uplifting art experience. Yeah, encaustic!!!! Can’t wait to attend one of your workshops at your home studio in Ohio.
Hi Sheryl! Thank you for your kind words! I loved having your vibrant energy in my workshop and I look forward to having you here too! ❤️
i took my first encaustic class frm patricia suggesbruch at art unravelled. and am hooked.
i see all your classes for 2018 but i need some idea of price. this is a hobby for me and a very
expensive one so i try to set a budget!!!! love your work. love your new ideas….thanks
ps my web site was a gift 5 years ago from my son who set it up…it is BE..before encaustic!
Thank you SO much for the fun and funny creative weekend workshop! I learned so much and enjoyed the warm and inviting atmosphere you create! Hope to attend again:>
What wonderful pieces you have created. You are very talented and artistic. I,would like to see more.I am very proud of you. love D. A. D.
Hi Linda! I love your beautiful work! Thanks for everything xxooxox
Thanks Susan, you’re the best! xoxo
love your wok and attitude! I grew up in Ohio but am a New Mexico transplant for the past 30 years…just took a 2 days class with susan at Art Unraveled, now looking ahead to Houston!
Hi Sheila! Houston’s going to be fun! I’ll see you there!!