by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2022 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions, Thoughts, Updates
New England Wax members, in our exhibition at the Southern Vermont Art Center’s Wilson Gallery, put together a special project for the exhibition. We called it We are Monotypes. Coordinators Angel Dean and Nancy Spears Whitcomb, discussing the theme of our...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 26, 2018 | Updates, Works-in-progress
This is the result of a months’ long project we undertook in New England Wax. Just for the fun of it, and as a way to share our art with each other, 19 of us each produced 20 works of art, 8″ x 8″ on paper, to be collated so we each receive a...
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 | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: The Balance, encaustic on panel, 30 x 22 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Later On, encaustic and painted small person model, 4 x 4 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Middle Age,...
by Debra Claffey | Feb 18, 2015 | Exhibition catalog, Exhibitions, Thoughts
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the catalog for the juried exhibition, Transformations, which was held last fall in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The show was juried by Artscope magazine founder and publisher, Kaveh Mojtabai. Both Camellia Sousa and...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 12, 2014 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
New England Wax, a collective of artists who use wax and encaustic, is being showcased at the Sharon Arts Center Gallery in downtown Peterborough until November 1, 2014. I helped coordinate the exhibition, along with Pat Gerkin, Kellie Weeks, and Soosen Dunholter. I...
by Debra Claffey | Apr 26, 2014 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts
I, with my fellow artist-members of New England Wax, recently exhibited new work at Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham, Massachusetts. The exhibition was juried by Lauren O’Neal and Sara Zela, from the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH....
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2010 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates
Received the partners of the diptychs Lee Ann Petropolis and I have been working on. Here’s what LA had to say about it: “As I looked at it, I thought of leaves being blown off a tree during a summer storm (since they aren’t colored the way...
by Debra Claffey | May 29, 2010 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates
40 artists! 20 who work with encaustic, 20 who work in mosaic. We each start work on one 12″ x 18″ panel of a diptych in our own medium. Last month we met our assigned partner and swapped diptychs. I will complete the second panel in response to my...
