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Arts
Canby artist revives lost art form
By Jeff Schoessler and
Thad Kreisher
Of The Print
When was the last time you
were at an art show featuring
the works of a unique and well
known artist? If it’s been
a while, then now would be an
excellent time to make up for
lost time.
Currently, at the Pauling
Center, an exhibit of paintings
by local artist Frances Van
Hevelingen is on display.
A resident of Canby, Van
Hevelingen’s work is frequent­
ly featured at the Fountain
Gallery in Portland. Her en­
caustic paintings have also
been displayed at such places
as the Portland Art Museum,
the Seattle Art Museum, and
the distinguished Smithsonian
Institute.
The encaustic technique she
employs has made Van Hevel­
ingen’s name well known in
the art world. This technique
was first discovered and utiliz­
ed by the ancient Greeks.
Later, the Egyptians used a
similar process in their mum­
my paintings.
With this method, paint and
wax are applied in layers and
fixed to a surface with hot
A
sampling
Hevelingen’s
of
irons. The encaustic process is uses the encaustic method.
Frances Van Hevelingen’s
doubly difficult in that the
background is done last, and exhibit of twenty paintings will
the foreground first, the exact be on display through
opposite of the norm. Further­ November 7. From the
more, once began there can be moody, fused shades of
no mistakes in the process. “Stonehenge” to the swirling
Usually, if a mistake is made it blues of “Sea, Land, and
means that the entire thing Stone”, each painting is
must be scrapped and done diverse and unique. This sample
over again. Van Hevelingen is of Van Hevelingen’s work is a
one of the only artists who delightful lesson in the ancient
art of encaustic painting.
Van
work
on
display at the Pauling
Center. The exhibit will
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run through Nov. 7.
Photos by George Waller
October 29, 1985
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