Please note: additional materials list and fees may apply
Instructor: Bettina Egli Sennhauser
Monday - Wednesday
June 2 - 4
10am - 4pm
3 sessions at Edgewood Farm
The layered, fragmented textures of the paintings created during this workshop evoke a sense of time's passage. The process speaks to decay and gradual transformation, inviting a sense of history and remnants of the past, memory and quiet stillness.
We create space for the new and unexpected by combining different aspects of two antique painting techniques: encaustic and fresco. Encaustic, with its molten wax and vibrant pigments, adds a dynamic quality, while fresco anchors the pieces in permanence. This interplay allows each technique to complement the other while retaining its unique narrative and beauty.
The resulting artworks are bridging past and present and honouring the vestiges of time, transforming them into something strikingly new and deeply connected to our shared experience.
Bettina’s passion centers on developing her abstract vocabulary through the exploration of natural materials and an intuitive, process-oriented approach. She is deeply engaged in the contemporary interpretation of ancient techniques of encaustic and fresco. Since 2019, she has served as a freelance lecturer at different Art Academies in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Ireland and in the USA. She is a speaker at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown and has published her first book on Cold Wax Techniques in 2023. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions across Switzerland, Italy, and was selected for juried exhibitions in Provincetown, Palo Alto and New York in the USA. In 2024 she won the Director^s award at the International Encaustic Conference. She is represented by the Soderbergh Gallery in Wellfleet, MA. Bettina works and lives in Switzerland, near Basel, where she leads her art teaching studio `kunstfreiraum`.