Hildie Spautz
Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography
Glimpsing the Dream. 2020. SOLD! Encaustic on 8" x 8" wood panel. Currently showing at Crocker Art Museum "Wondrous Wax" exhibit. $250.
Endogenous Light 2 - Cranio-sacral light show. 2019. Encaustic mixed media on 10" x 10" cradled wood panel. $175. This piece is a representation of the light I see when experiencing a cranio-sacral massage.
Ecotone or Three Continents. 2021. Encaustic mixed media on 18" x 18" cradled wood panel. $350. This piece symbolizes the three continents my heart calls home: United States & Europe (I have dual citizenship), and Australia, where I went to high school and where my mother and some special friends live. I am the ecotone where three ecosystems meet.
Chimera kaleidoscope 1. 2021. Encaustic mixed media on 12" x 12" wood panel. $150. This piece was created in collaboration with artificial intelligence. It started with a selection of my encaustic paintings and photographs, with which the artificial intelligence program on playform.io created new works of art. I then digitally manipulated one of those works to create what looks like a watercolor kaleidoscope.
Wavy-leaf paintbrush. 2020. Encaustic mixed media on 12" x 12" cradled wood panel. $150. California native plant species Castilleja applegatei
Longfin smelt habitat. 2020. Encaustic mixed media on 18" x 24" cradled wood panel. $350. Longfin smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys) is a state of California threatened species.
Lithosophy. 2019. Encaustic mixed media on 8" x 8" cradled wood panel. $150.
L'Origine, or Francophilia, or Elles Revent en Francais. 2020. Encaustic mixed media on 16" x 16" cradled wood panel. $250.
Aura. 2021. Encaustic on 10" x 10" cradled wood panel. $200. This piece was inspired by the blinding geometric forms I experience when I have a migraine aura.
Symbiosis. 2020. Encaustic mixed media on 8" x 8" wood panel. $250.
Blue oregano. 2000. Cyanotype (alternative photographic technique) on watercolor paper. 12" x 9". $120.
Studio
About Hildie Spautz
Watch Hildie's 2020 Conversations With Artists Video Here
I am an American-Luxembourgish photographer, encaustic and mixed-media artist, and professional restoration ecologist. My art resides at the intersection of science, dreams, and spirituality, and is informed by studies in language, cartography, Tibetan Buddhism, yoga, Japanese ceramics, ornithology, botany, and ecosystem ecology, and travels in the USA, Australia, and Europe.
I use images of nature, ancient motifs, and patterns to map my dreams, spiritual and physical journeys, ecological systems, and climate change. My encaustic wax paintings incorporate digitally altered original photography, collaboration with artificial intelligence (an exciting new venture for 2021!), collage, vintage ephemera, and a range of drawing and painting media. I also create embellished cyanotypes (alternative photography process using the sun) and other mixed media works on paper.
My outdoor garden studio was open on Saturday and Sunday, September 11 & 12, 2021, from 10 am to 5 pm. Please come and say hello! Masks are required. Please contact me to schedule a personal virtual studio tour. Visit www.hildiespautz.com for more about my work and to inquire about purchasing.
Services Offered
Takes Commissions, Teaches Classes