lisa jonesmoore biography
LISA JONESMOORE
JONESMOORE STUDIO ART
ENCAUSTIC & MIXED MEDIA ART & INSTRUCTION
ARTIST STATEMENT–2019
I spent my childhood and teenage years in the state of Colorado, immersed in the incredible nature of the Rocky Mountains. After working as a graphic designer and illustrator in Denver, San Francisco and Seattle, I decided to pursue my passion for pastel landscapes (en plein air) and ultimately, encaustic painting with mixed media and art assemblage. My love of Latino folk art, Mexican culture, landscapes, “genius loci” or spirit of place, and the beauty of all things “worn and aged” permeate my work. Nature, in all its beauty and mystery, also shows up as a consistent and subtle theme. I continue to search for the “Universal Mother” through timeless icons and archetypes, due to the loss of my own mother at an early age.
My creative and technical processes consist of surrounding myself in the studio with pigmented encaustic waxes, oil pastels, artist inks, artist papers, ephemera, sand (from my own collection), rust, found objects, and my own photographic images. The scent of molten beeswax and encaustic paints gets me into the state of what I call “the other side”, or the creative process. Encaustic is a very tactile medium, warm and alive, not unlike human skin. The use of my hands and fingers directly on the wax surface becomes very much a part of the process. I employ many techniques such as scribing into the wax, creating translucent layers, mark-making with sharp objects & carbon-based media, oil pastel & dry pigment rubs, and embedding my own photographic images.
I also create encaustic monotype prints, which employ the use of an anodized aluminum plate on an encaustic hotplate. I “paint” directly onto this plate with blocks of encaustic paint. Printmaking paper is then applied to the plate, with no printing “press” required. The result is both immediate and deeply-satisfying. I often use these prints as a “launch” for my paintings. Mark-making and the use of stencils also play very important roles in both my painting and printmaking processes.
My works are part of private collections in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest and the East Coast of the United States. They have been exhibited in the United States and Canada, and I have been published in: encaustiZINE–Winter 2019 issue, The Pulse of Mixed Media: 100 Artists Revealed (North Light Books/Apter), Cloth•Paper•Scissors, Somerset Studio, Somerset Life Images, Somerset Workshop and IndieArts DVD magazines. I graduated from Colorado State University, with a BFA concentration in Graphic Design. I am the founder of the professional hot & cold wax artist group, Wax on Washington (WOW!).
For inquiries about my encaustic & mixed media workshops in the Greater Seattle area and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, please send an email to: [email protected]
JONESMOORE STUDIO ART
ENCAUSTIC & MIXED MEDIA ART & INSTRUCTION
ARTIST STATEMENT–2019
I spent my childhood and teenage years in the state of Colorado, immersed in the incredible nature of the Rocky Mountains. After working as a graphic designer and illustrator in Denver, San Francisco and Seattle, I decided to pursue my passion for pastel landscapes (en plein air) and ultimately, encaustic painting with mixed media and art assemblage. My love of Latino folk art, Mexican culture, landscapes, “genius loci” or spirit of place, and the beauty of all things “worn and aged” permeate my work. Nature, in all its beauty and mystery, also shows up as a consistent and subtle theme. I continue to search for the “Universal Mother” through timeless icons and archetypes, due to the loss of my own mother at an early age.
My creative and technical processes consist of surrounding myself in the studio with pigmented encaustic waxes, oil pastels, artist inks, artist papers, ephemera, sand (from my own collection), rust, found objects, and my own photographic images. The scent of molten beeswax and encaustic paints gets me into the state of what I call “the other side”, or the creative process. Encaustic is a very tactile medium, warm and alive, not unlike human skin. The use of my hands and fingers directly on the wax surface becomes very much a part of the process. I employ many techniques such as scribing into the wax, creating translucent layers, mark-making with sharp objects & carbon-based media, oil pastel & dry pigment rubs, and embedding my own photographic images.
I also create encaustic monotype prints, which employ the use of an anodized aluminum plate on an encaustic hotplate. I “paint” directly onto this plate with blocks of encaustic paint. Printmaking paper is then applied to the plate, with no printing “press” required. The result is both immediate and deeply-satisfying. I often use these prints as a “launch” for my paintings. Mark-making and the use of stencils also play very important roles in both my painting and printmaking processes.
My works are part of private collections in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest and the East Coast of the United States. They have been exhibited in the United States and Canada, and I have been published in: encaustiZINE–Winter 2019 issue, The Pulse of Mixed Media: 100 Artists Revealed (North Light Books/Apter), Cloth•Paper•Scissors, Somerset Studio, Somerset Life Images, Somerset Workshop and IndieArts DVD magazines. I graduated from Colorado State University, with a BFA concentration in Graphic Design. I am the founder of the professional hot & cold wax artist group, Wax on Washington (WOW!).
For inquiries about my encaustic & mixed media workshops in the Greater Seattle area and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, please send an email to: [email protected]