Jane Page Conway

Jane Page Conway

I am an artist photographer residing in Bowdoinham, Maine. I have been making and altering photographic images for over 30 years. I am an inquisitive experimenter. I have learned to restructure my thinking in the digital age, blending the old with the new. I am now practicing the ancient painting medium of encaustic wax with my photography. “Encaustic” means to burn In. Beeswax is mixed with damar resin and heated so that it becomes liquid. The hot wax medium is tinted with a powdered pigment and applied in layers. Each layer is fused with heat (gun, torch or heated instrument/tool). I add or subtract the wax, using dental tools to scribe or make texture on the surface. Fiber, paper, or various objects can be embedded into the wax creating surface texture, luminosity and meaning.