by DCadmin | Sep 25, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
If you live near Falmouth, Massachusetts, here’s a chance for an in-person workshop in Encaustic Painting, from the beginning. Get a hands-on experience of working with molten, pigmented beeswax to create layered paintings. Encaustic painting can be translucent,...
by DCadmin | Mar 23, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibition catalog, Exhibitions, Updates
← The Reception at Gateway Gallery I’m very proud to make available a catalog of the exhibition at the Springfield Museums that my colleagues and I have put together. The show features work by Pat Gerkin, Donna Hamil Talman, Charyl Weissbach and me, at the...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Updates, Works-in-progress
It was great fun to speak to the museum docents at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts along with fellow artists Pat Gerkin and Charyl Weissbach (three of the four artists in our group Elemental) today. They showed such interest and asked intelligent questions! We met...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Marvelous opening reception at Fuller Craft for SHIFTS: Approaching Encaustic from All Angles. This was an exhibition of work by New England Wax members and was juried by Ben Shattuck, lead curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, Massachusetts. Dietlind Vander...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions
I have recently teamed up with three amazing artist-friends, Pat Gerkin, Charyl Weissbach, and Donna Hamil Talman, to create a kind of collective. We call it Elemental. We are all concerned,in our work, with the natural world and the forces, geological, psychological,...