Instructor: Debra Claffey
Wednesday - Thursday
June 8 - 9
10am - 4pm
2 sessions on campus

Explore creating paneled work with layered pigment stick monotypes and encaustic medium and paint. Add mixed media ingredients such as carbon drawing, incising, toning with pigment stick or pan pastel. On the first day, create a series of monotypes on Asian papers with R&F pigment sticks. No press needed for these hand-pulled monotypes from either plexiglass plates or gelatin plates or both. On the second day, layer the prints and encaustic medium on panels with the addition of pigment stick, drawing, incising, and other encaustic techniques.

Debra Claffey is a visual artist who uses encaustic, oil, and mixed media in her work. She holds a BFA in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University and an Associate's Degree in Horticultural Technology from the University of New Hampshire. In both 2011 and 2020, she received an Artist Entrepreneurial Grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Claffey’s work has won several awards, including the Second Place Award at the Monotype Guild of New England’s Fifth National Monotype Exhibition in May 2018 and the Juror’s Award at the Anything But Flat Exhibition at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Claffey has curated five exhibitions, the most recent being The Space Between Shadow and Light for the Eleventh International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts in June 2017. Claffey is a Past-President of New England Wax, and Past President of the NH Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Raised in Connecticut, educated in Massachusetts, she now lives and works in New Boston, New Hampshire.