The Studio of Denby Dale: Sculptural Encaustics & Mixed Media

What does Collage & Assemblage mean to you? Curious how to take parts and pieces and craft them into a whole? I am teaching a 2 part workshop this Saturday 3/11 and 3/18 dedicated to the 'art of building art' out of the images, materials and objects that we fancy, collect & cannot part with.

Collage & Assemblage: It's not just Cutting and Pasting
Saturday March 11th & March 18th
1:30 - 4:30 pm
Mars Landing Galleries
37 Library Street, Mars Hill

Find more information at the Mars Landing Galleries website - link in bio above - or message me!

This pile of cold wax and oil drawings landed just so after being spliced and diced for collages - just one way I incorporate the cold wax medium into my work.

Learn about this versatile medium and how to make it work for you at my upcoming workshop "Wax on, Wax Off" on Thursday September 29th, 1 - 5 pm at Mars Landing Galleries.

Explore - or newly discover - your own visual vocabulary. All supplies and materials included and all levels welcome! Link in bio to find out more, ask questions, and register.

Finally breaking my 8 month hiatus from social media to announce my upcoming workshops held at , just north of Asheville, starting this month.

I last taught these hands on workshops pre-pandemic , and can't wait to get back to it, now at Mars Landing!
Link in bio ⤴above⤴ for much more info and registration via eventbrite.

Collage & Assemblage: It’s not Just Cutting and Pasting
September 22nd, 1 - 5
A workshop dedicated to the 'art of building art' out of the materials, images, objects & ephemera that we fancy, collect & cannot part with.

Cold Wax Workshop: Wax on, Wax Off
September 29th, 1-5
Explore the intriguing properties of cold wax medium and how to incorporate it into your mark making toolbox – whether you are a dabbler, drawer, painter or mixed media artist.

Sanguine Interruptions II

Encaustic tiles, thread, enamel on red and white acrylic panel.
18” x 24”

Injecting some organic shape into the geometric order…

‘Sanguine Interruptions, III’
Encaustic, thread, enamel on white & red acrylic panel. 18” x 24”

Building work that is a challenge to photograph seems to be my go to, and I’m not anticipating that ending anytime soon. This new series also features iridescence and some metallic undertones- very hard to capture!

See them in person at

weekend is still going strong today…I’m set up here at as a guest artist along with until 5. Its a perfect Sunday for a fall drive!

Since it is a green-forward kind of a day, and spring beckons.

Detail from 'Line shuffle in Spring', 26" w x 46" h, layered encaustic tiles, thread and hardware on aluminum panel.

Because red is the featured color of this particular week - and the color I've been spending a lot of time with lately.

The white encaustic dipped portions are dusted in an iridescent pigment- doesn't show much in photographs - but in the right light they shimmer a cool gold/silver cast that contrasts beautifully with the graphite encaustic. It is rather like dusting confectioner's sugar on chocolate. Just please don't consume.

Encaustic, thread & pearl x pigments, red acrylic sheet

Preliminary test tile, 6" x 6", floating over a strip of 1.75" red acrylic for scale and contrast. I added some powdered metallic gilding to the surface while the encaustic was still tacky, as an experiment. Next step is to scale up the size of the thread/fiber elements, and create even larger tiles for direct wall installation.

This series focuses on the interaction of color, the meditative quality of repetition, and the limitless and liberating concept of variation within structure. Encaustic (wax paint), embroidery thread, felt & aluminum.
2019

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