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Trying to Buy Love

Description
"Trying to Buy Love" in the "Lay of the Land" collection is an original encaustic painting by San Diego artist Shima Shanti. Fifty-plus layers of purified beeswax mixed with earth pigments are painted on custom-made Russian Baltic birch panels then fused with the flame of a torch. Shima's inspiration is borne from growing up in the endless abundance of water and big sky of Montana. Her connection to nature has gifted her with an innate sense of color and composition Her minimal aesthetic and choice of all natural earth elements creates patina and texture that storied, translucent and luminous. In this simplicity unexpected levels of complexity surface.

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	New
Materials:	Encaustic the ancient and alchemic art form of painting layers of beeswax and fusing with fire - purified beeswax mixed with earth pigments and fir-tree sap damar on Russian Baltic birch panel
Condition:	New. The unique beauty of Encaustic are the ripples, bubbles and markings on the smooth-texture, high-gloss surface.
Styles / Movements:	Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	716954