Richmond Hill Group of Artists

Join artist Karen Brown for a two-hour live photo encaustic demonstration that offers an intimate look into her layered, process-driven practice. This session explores the intersection of photography and encaustic wax, revealing how image, texture, heat, and time work together to create luminous, tactile surfaces.

Karen will walk participants through her materials and tools, including beeswax, mixed media, heat sources, and photographic substrates. She will demonstrate surface preparation, image transfer techniques, layering and fusing wax, and methods for incising, embedding, and manipulating imagery within the wax. 

The session emphasizes process over product, inviting viewers to observe the meditative rhythm of encaustic painting while gaining practical knowledge they can adapt to their own creative practice. Time is built in for questions and discussion, making this demonstration engaging for artists at all stages, photographers curious about alternative processes, and those interested in material-based storytelling.

Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of photo encaustics, a greater appreciation for the medium’s expressive potential, and insight into how layered imagery can hold memory, repair, and transformation.