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Encaustic and Cold Wax Art Group
SWFL WAX (Southwest Florida Wax) is a new chapter of International Encaustic Artists (IEA) founded in 2018.
SHERRY DEGENNARO (Co-President)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
ARTIST STATEMENT I describe the style of my paintings as “Representational Abstract”, suggesting organic shapes, colors and textures in the real world, yet also something unquantifiable and emotional. There’s something familiar, yet not. The eyes beg to linger. Each piece, wrought in encaustic hot wax medium, an unpredictable translucent molten medium, captures a bit of the bend of a river, or a certain section of sky, or a flower halfway to seed, and possibly something of the artist or viewer as well. Occasionally, a simple discarded item or a found object add texture, depth and interest.
“I frequently begin a painting with no defined direction where it will take me in its creation.” I begin with nature in mind, then expand perception, flowing with luminous process, surrendering to wherever brush, heat, wax and pigment take me.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 - Present - Co-President and Co-founder SWFL WAX. A Chapter of International Encaustic Artists.
2018 - Present - Instructor at Naples Art, Naples, Florida, Bonita Springs Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida, Marco Island Art Center, Marco Island, Florida, Layor Art Gallery, Bend, Oregon.
2018- Present - Member of Naples Art, The United Arts Council of Collier County, Bonita Springs Center for the Arts, International Encaustic Artists, The Encaustic Art Institute .
EXHIBITIONS
2020 - Global Warming Is REAL, IV, Juried show. Encaustic Art Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. “GLOBAL TEARS”
2020 - 31st Annual Members Only, Juried Show, Bonita Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, Fl. “PURPLE REIGN”.
2019 - 30th Annual Members Only, Juried Show, Bonita Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, Fl. “YELLOW FELLOWS”
AWARDS AND CREDITS
2020 - Annual Membership Exhibition, Juried show, Bonita Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, FL. Merit Award “PURPLE REIGN”.
2020 - Image of original artwork used in promotional material by FineMark Bank, Naples, FL. “FLORAL”
2019 - Annual Membership Exhibition, Juried show, Bonita Center for the Arts, Bonita Springs, FL. Barbara Culbertson Merit Award “YELLOW FELLOWS”.
2019 - Image of original artwork used in promotional material by FineMark Bank, Estero, FL. “FLORAL”.
2018 - Image of original artwork used in promotional material by First Presbyterian Church, Bonita Springs, Fl. “EARTH ANGEL”.