encaustic

Four of the icons - encaustic paintings on wood from Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai desert - date from the 6th and early 7th centuries.

Adopting these discarded — or, as she puts it, “orphaned” — photos became an obsession, and now she regularly uses them as collage elements in mysterious encaustic and multimedia paintings.

He urged Hudson to look at Jasper Johns’ work, which used encaustics — something that Hudson began to explore more closely.

Traditional materials used to build the homes - such as Burma teakwood and encaustic tiles - are now expensive and hard to come by, and many of the building techniques have also become obsolete.

Warn makes layered abstractions on wooden panels, partly covering repeated geometric figures such as concentric circles with smeary, wax-based encaustic pigment.