Oil and Chilly Wax Work by Leonie E Brown I Artsy Shark

South African artist Leonie Brown creates advanced dreamlike work containing hidden messages. Go to her website to view extra of her fascinating portfolio.

“I Will Watch Over You” oil and chilly wax on canvas, 150cm x 120cm

I’ve spent the previous few years exploring the human situation and its relationship to the divine. My work are messages of hope and life, fastidiously deliberate, thought out and executed. Each portray has a narrative and is designed to evoke an emotional response from the viewer—whether or not it’s heart-wrenching or inspirational.

“When the Sky Burns With Your Love” encaustic on picket panel, 80cm x 120cm

Encaustic artwork has a smooth, smokey and sensual really feel about it. It’s a spontaneous medium the place sizzling or chilly wax is used, and to which colored pigments have been added. The liquid/paste is then utilized to a floor. The assorted layers are melted and burned into one another, which supplies the completed work a three-dimensional high quality.

“The Secret Place” oil and chilly wax on canvas, 180cm x 120cm

The wax layers get increasingly more translucent via the heat emanating from the exploring human hand. The viewers change into part of the gradual change and readability of the portray…as if the message is rising from the depth of the hidden soul to the floor of the thoughts. There’s a unusual ethereal magnificence in these work, as in the event that they had been created from air.

Quite a lot of encaustics present in artist Leonie E Brown’s studio

The artistic course of for my figurative work typically comes within the type of an immediate visualization or a sentence that I can’t shake off. This primary concept then dictates how I work on every portray, be it a sketch or photoshop edit. On common, every portray takes between 50 to 100 hours.

“Coated By Your Love” chilly wax and oil on canvas, 150cm x 120cm

I work with oil and chilly wax due to the luminosity of the medium. Every portray is predicated on an allegorical message, there for the viewer to discern and discover. Naming the portray is essential because the identify is a sign of the hidden message.

“You Fill Up The Sky With Limitless Grace” oil and chilly wax on canvas, 180cm x 120cm

My work typically touches on private experiences, ideas and feelings. It expresses these common moments by which all of us really feel alone or disconnected from ourselves or others. By my explorations, I hope to offer others with a glimpse into their very own lives and minds, in addition to assist them perceive their place on this advanced world.

“Be Nonetheless and Wait By The Storm” encaustic on wooden panel, 150cm x 120cm

I grew up as an orphan in a household of orphans. From a really younger age, I used to be uncovered to sexual abuse, emotional abandonment and alcoholism.

“You Open Heaven” encaustic on picket panel, 120cm x 80cm

Like each different artist, I initially threw my anger and hopelessness onto the canvas. While affected by PTSD and anorexia, I managed to complete my diploma in High-quality Arts and gained just a few nationwide awards on the similar time. I lived in fixed despair, preventing for each second of my life.

Artist Leonie E Brown

My in search of for cause and understanding drove me to very totally different beliefs and religions. I discovered my therapeutic in God. This led me to my artist assertion. I consider the function of the artist is to seek out the deepest emotions of human nature and expose them to the great or the unhealthy. I select to observe hope and life.

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