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Thank you for the kind writeup by Warnock fine Arts, our newest gallery:

Elise Wagner: Ancient materials, contemporary abstraction.

Elise Wagner and the Material Language of Encaustic Collagraph

For more than three decades, Elise Wagner has explored the luminous possibilities of encaustic painting — building layered surfaces from beeswax, damar resin, and pigment. Less widely discussed, but equally significant, is her contribution to contemporary printmaking. Through the development of encaustic collagraph, Wagner extends her painting practice into works on paper that retain the same sensitivity to surface, translucency, and structure.

In her hands, wax becomes not only a painting medium, but a printable matrix.