Montana-based Gallery MAR artist Shawna Moore is presenting a sold our workshop at the Kimball Art Center this weekend. Fling in and out of town, she was able to bring new works for exhibiting at our gallery, as we are very excited to have them here. The chain elements and calligraphy work is expanding into circles and orbits in her work, and the color in this particular series is inviting and warm. Enjoy…

Shawna Moore - "Sokoto," 40" x 30"

Shawna Moore

• “Bee Conscious” Exhibition August 20th-22 and Recycle Utah Fund Raiser

Honey bees take the stage for this exhibition of encaustic works by local and regional artists.  Stop by this weekend to view the latest in this ancient, wax-based medium. This exhibit will be mounted to raise awareness for the plight of the honeybee, one of nature’s most cherished and necessary animals. Works by encaustic artists Bridgette Meinhold, Gretchen Papka, and Shawna Moore will be featured. Montana-based Shawna Moore will also hold an encaustic painting workshop at the Kimball Art Center, details below.

Gretchen Papka

This “Bee Conscious” event kicks off a month-long fund raiser for Recycle Utah, culminating in Park City’s Non-Profit Awareness Gallery Stroll on Friday September 24th. Gallery MAR will be selling $10 opportunity drawing tickets to benefit Recycle Utah throughout the month of September. Enter to win your own “Bee Consious” encaustic artwork by a local artist and find out the lucky winner at the Gallery Stroll.

Bridgette Meinhold

Shawna Moore, Montana artist

The soothing scent of beeswax is floating through the gallery and a new abstract artist’s work hangs on our walls. Welcome to encaustic artist Shawna Moore, Gallery MAR’s newest artist. An ancient art, which is believed to have been originally used in Ancient Egyptian tombs, encaustic utilizes beeswax mixed with resins and varnishes in layered effects on board or canvas. Moore paints up to 20 or even 30 layers on her boards. The wax is heated, planed and scratched, and reworked to create intriguing depth.

She is currently exploring the idea of “line”– what makes a mark, and how that is related to the past and our landscape. For Moore, making art is a quest to make sense of the world, both materially and conceptually, though the observance of nature, line, and color, and how they entwine with the flow of thought and creativity. View more of Shawna Moore’s artwork.