Encaustic & Mixed Media

Encaustic paint is made from a combination of purified beeswax, natural damar tree sap resin, and powdered or oil pigments. It can also be used in combination with pigment oil sticks. The wax mixture is heated and applied in liquid form to a wooden panel, then fused with a heat gun, tacking iron, or blow torch. Each layer must be fused to the one below. It lends itself well to the incorporation of photo transfers, collage papers, or other objects. Paintings can be highly textured, sculptural, or perfectly smooth. The translucent qualities of the wax medium, and the different effects that can be achieved with layering techniques, make it a beautiful and intriguing art medium to work with.

Of Greenlands & Tiger Tea

Encaustic, Photo Transfers & Collage on Wood Panel, 2025, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

A Lament for Bats

Encaustic, Photo Transfers, & Poem by Wayne Clifford, on Wood Panel, 2025, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Minke at Whale Cove

Encaustic, Paper, Whale Bone & Rocks on Wood Panel, 2025, 16″ x 16″ x 1.5″

I Dream of Whales – Turbulence

Encaustic, Collage, Bone, Net, Shell, Photo Transfers & Metal on Wood Panel, 2025, 16″ x 20″ x 1″

Flotsam & Ephemera #5 – Fishing Memories

Encaustic, photo transfers, collage, and metal on wood panel, 2025, 20″ x 20″ x 1.5″

Flotsam & Ephemera # 6 – 19th Century Down East

Encaustic, Collage, Photo Transfers & Metal on Wood Panel, 2025, 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″

Flotsam & Ephemera #7 – Rose Cottage Ledger

Encaustic, Collage & Metal on Wood Panel, 2025, 16″ x 16″ x 1.5″

Thus the Monk By the Sea Invites

Encaustic, Collage & Metal on Wood Panel, 2025, 12″ x 6″ x 1″

Boston Public Garden

Encaustic, Collage & Photo Transfers on Wood Panel, 2025, 12″ x 6″ x 1″

First Flight

Encaustic, photo transfer, collage and metal on wood panel, 2025, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″

Island Textures

Encaustic & Metal on Wood Panel, 2025, 10″ x 10″ x 1″

Island Geometry – Circles #3

Encaustic & Oil Pigment on Wood Panel, 2025, 16″ x 20″ x 1″

A Bearing

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Along The Beach #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Along the Beach #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Along The Beach #3

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 3″

Along the Beach #4

Encaustic on Wood, 2011, 24″ x 24″ x 3″

Along the Beach #5

Encaustic & Bone on Wood, 2012, 24″ x 24″ x 2″, (Private Collection)

Along the Beach #6

Encaustic, Bones & Shell on Wood, 2014, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

The Dory

Encaustic & Photo Transfer on Wood, 2011, 8″ x 9″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Into The Wild Blue Yonder

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 8″ x 8″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Anchorage

Encaustic & Photo Transfer on Wood, 2011, 8″ x 8″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Anchorage #2

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 11″ x 14″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Anchorage #3

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Anchorage #4

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 10″ x 10″ x 2″(Private Collection)

Beachcombing: Whale Cove Witness

Encaustic, Rocks, & Minke Whale Bone on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Beachcombing: Pebbles

Encaustic, Metal, Rocks, & Fibre on Wood, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Beachcombing: Mussel

Encaustic, Blue Mussel & Mixed Media on Canvas, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Beachcombing: Mussel #2

Encaustic, Mixed Media, & Mussel Shell on Wood, 2015, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Collecting the Pieces #1: Looking Back

Encaustic & Collage on Wood, 2013, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Cellular #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Cellular #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Circling Abstraction #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Circling Abstraction #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Circling Abstraction #3

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Circling Abstraction #4

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Circling Abstraction #5

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Collecting the Pieces #2: Falling

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 16″ x 16″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Collecting the Pieces #3: Fragmented

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 14″ x 14″ x 2″

Collecting the Pieces #4: Weathered

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 14″ x 14″ x 2″

Collecting the Pieces #5: Working Fictions

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 16″ x 16″ x 2″

Collecting the Pieces #6: Flightless

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 8″ x 8″ x 2″

Collecting the Pieces #7: False Promise

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

Collecting the Pieces #8: Return

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 16″ x 16″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #1

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 6″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #2

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 6″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #3

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 11″ x 14″ x 1″, 2014

Ephemeral Landscape #4

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 11″ x 14″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #5

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 6″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #6

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 6″ x 12″ x 2″(Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #7

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 16″ x 16″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #8

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 6″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #9

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 6″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #10

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 8″ x 8″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #11

Encaustic Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 16″ x 20″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #12

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #13

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #14

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #15

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #16

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #17

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 18″ x 12″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #18

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 2″

Ephemeral Landscape #19

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 16″ x 16″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #20

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

Ephemeral Landscape #21

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #22

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #23

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #24

Encaustic Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #25

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #26

Encaustic Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 6″ x 12″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #27

Encaustic Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 8″ x 16″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #28

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″

Ephemeral Landscape #29

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #30

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #31

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 11″ x 14″ x 1″(Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #32

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 16″ x 20″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #33

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #34

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 10″ x 10″ x 1″(Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #35

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 10″ x 10″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #36

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Ephemeral Landscape #37

Encaustic & Mixed Media, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Ephemeral Landscape #38

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 10″ x 10″ x 1″

The Missionary’s Children

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1

Island Geometry: Attuned

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 16″ x 20″ x 1″

Island Geometry: Building Lobster Traps

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2016, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

Island Geometry: Circles

Encaustic & Oil Pigment on Wood, 2016, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Island Geometry: Circles #2

Encaustic & Oil on Wood, 2017, 9″ x 12″ x 1.5″

Island Geometry: The Pier

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Island Geometry: Entwined

Encaustic & Metal on Wood, 2017, 8″ x 6″ x 8″ x 1.5″

Patterns & Permutations

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 20″ x 20″ x 2″

Remembering Modernism

Encaustic on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Checkered Pear

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

One, Two, Three

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″

Four, Five, Six

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″

Four Square

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Four Square (Detail #1)

Encaustic on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Four Square (Detail #2)

Encaustic & Metal on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Four Square (Detail #3)

Encaustic & Metal on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Four Square (Detail #4)

Encaustic & Collage on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Not a Chance

Encaustic on Wood, 2011, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Music in the City

Encaustic & Beads on Wood, 2011, 11.5″ x 24″ x 2″

Urban Mapping #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 12″ x 24″ x 2″

Flotsam & Ephemera #1: Maps for the Lost

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 24″ x 24″ x 3″

Flotsam & Ephemera #2: Maps for the Found

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 24″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Flotsam & Ephemera #3 – Seafaring Ancestors

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 24″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Flotsam & Ephemera #4: Biography

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 24″ x 24″ x 3″ (Private Collection)

Full Moon Rising

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Fundy Archipelago

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 3″

Fundy Cliffs #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Fundy Cliffs #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Fundy Cliffs #3

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Horizons #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2011, 48″ x 12″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Landscape: Summer Sheep

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″(Private Collection)

Under the Sea

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 6″ x 26″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Right Beneath the Surface

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2021, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Seascape #2

Encaustic & Oil on Wood, 2017, 8″ x 16″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

At the Edge

Encaustic on Wood, 2012, 24″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Intertidal Blues

Encaustic & Limpet Shells on Wood, 2013, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Into the Blue

Encaustic & Snake Skin on Wood, 2015, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Intertidal Flow

Encaustic & Oil Pigement on Wood, 2016, 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″

Memory Transfer: Alchemy & Ancestors

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 9.5″ x 21.5″ x 2″

Memory Transfer: Forgotten Coastlines

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 2″

Memory Transfer: Fractured Earth

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Memory Transfer: Home Children

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 8″ x 8″ x 1″

Memory Transfer: I Wrote My Life in Sand

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 11.5″x 24 “x 2” (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: I Wrote My Life in Sand – Detail #1

Encaustic & mixed media on wood, 2012, 11.5″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: I Wrote My Life in Sand – Detail #2

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 11.5″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: I Wrote My Life in Sand – Detail #3

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 11.5″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Longing

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 2″

Memory Transfer: Loss & Discovery

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 16″ x 16″ x 2″

Memory Transfer: No More Fish in the Sea

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 10″ x 11″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Promises

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 11″ x 14″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Remembering Hiroshima

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (NFS)

Memory Transfer: Second Primer

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 2″

Memory Transfer: The Rime

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Too Late, The Sea

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Tracings

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Memory Transfer: Tree of Life

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 11″ x 14″ x 1″(Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Whale Cove

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 12″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transfer: Without a Trace

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #1

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #2

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Memory Transitions #3

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Memory Transitions #4

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Memory Transitions #5

Encaustic & Photo Transfer on Wood, 2012, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #6

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2012, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Memory Transitions #7

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 6″ x 6″ x 1″

Memory Transitions #8

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #9

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #10

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #11

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2013, 6″ x 6″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Memory Transitions #12

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2014, 8″ x 8″ x 2″

Memory Transitions #13

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 6″ x 6″ x 2″

Memory Transitions #14

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2015, 6″ x 6″ x 2″

Turbulence

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2011, 24″ x 24″ x 2″ (Private Collection)

Origins #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2011, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Origins #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Origins #3

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 3″ (Private Collection)

Origins #4

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 3″ (Private Collection)

Tidal Pool #1

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Tidal Pool #2

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Tidal Pool #3

Encaustic on Wood, 2007, 24″ x 24″ x 2″

Weathered & Worn: Buoy #1

Encaustic, Oil & Gold Leaf on Wood, 2017, 9″ x 12″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn – buoy #2

Encaustic & Oil on Wood, 2107, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Weathered & Worn: Cliff Edge

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: The Floating World

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″(Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: Evangeline

Encaustic & Mixed Media, 2017, 18″ x 12″ x 1″

Weathered & Worn: Moss World

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 6″ x 18″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: Fallen

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″(Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: Fallen #2

Encaustic & Mixed Media, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″ (Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: The Wall

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

Weathered & Worn: Boat Haul-Up

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Weathered & Worn: Leonardo’s Dream

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 24″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: The Lighthouse

Encaustic on Wood, 2017, 12″ x 24″ x 1.5″

Weathered & Worn: The Land Remembers

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 16″ x 16″ x 1.5″

Landscape of Memory

Encaustic on Wood, 2018, 20″ x 20″ x 1.5″

Landscape of the Harvest

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 14″ x 14″ x 1.5″

Disjunct

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 16″ x 16″ x 1.5″

On The Road to the North

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″ (Private Collection)

There is Only One Ocean

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 12″ x 12″ x 1″

Found by the Sea #1

Encaustic & Metal on Wood, 2018, 6″ x 12″ x1 “

Found by the Sea #2

Encaustic & Metal on Wood, 2018, 6″ x 12″ x 1″(Private Collection)

Weathered & Worn: Summer Passing

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

The Land Beyond

Encaustic & Mixed Media on Wood, 2018, 12″ x 36″ x 1.5″

Mountains of Time

Encaustic on Wood, 2018, 12″ x 12″ x 1.5″