Marilyn Fenn Studio

“Twisters” Encaustic and Wood on Panel 12″ x 12″ © 2010 Marilyn Fenn Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It’s crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? — Frank Gehry This is a very [...]

Tornado with Debris Cloud, version 2 Encaustic on Baltic Birch 10″ x 10″ x 2″ © 2010 Marilyn Fenn I have completed two new tornado paintings; one was the one I started a few weeks ago while being interviewed for a Weather Channel segment about my tornado paintings.  It’s changed a lot since it was [...]

Jetsons’ Holiday Encaustic on Baltic Birch 10″ x 10″ x 1.75″ deep © 2009 Marilyn Fenn This is the second of my Organics series using encaustic.  I have started several more in this series in oil, and will likely attempt some in acrylic, as well.  And of course, there are all the sketches. This piece went [...]

Happy Together Encaustic and rice paper on Baltic birch 10″ x 10″ x 1.75″ deep © 2009 Marilyn Fenn Painting in Encaustic: Liberation and Challenge For about the past year-and-a-half, I have been in a bit of despair over how to continue working in encaustic. I started using encaustic paints in 2006. Encaustic paint is pigment suspended [...]

Confetti Encaustic on Panel 10″ x 10″ © 2009 Marilyn Fenn This one is very highly textured, and looks really amazing in person. As promised, here are 6 of my new encaustic paintings — 5 of these were begun at last weekend’s encaustic workshop at Majestic Ranch.  I completed them and created one new painting [...]

I spent this past weekend with ten other members of the Austin group of Texas Wax in an encaustic painting workshop at Majestic Ranch in Boerne, TX.  Boerne is a lovely little Hill Country town located not too far from San Antonio.  Majestic Ranch is an Arts Foundation atop a hill with classrooms for painting, [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the encaustic group I belong to, Texas Wax, has just unveiled their new website and blog — designed jointly by artist and web guru extraordinaire Haley Nagy and yours truly.  Please feel free to check it out while we continue getting our artists added to the site.  There’s already plenty [...]

“Traces” Encaustic and Mixed Media on Paper Mounted on Birch Panel 12″ x 12″ © 2009 Marilyn Fenn I think I started this painting almost two years ago! I was never quite satisfied with it, though. There was something about the left-hand side of the painting that I just could never resolve. In the process [...]

Texas WAX Austin Artists First Exhibit at Bay6 Gallery and Studios What a great opening! So many people showed up, and once again, Sharon had some of my work very prominently displayed, for which I feel deeply honored! The yellow poppy paintings on the front wall are mine. View some random photos from the event [...]

“Crossing Over” Encaustic on Baltic Birch 12″ x 12″ © 2008 Marilyn Fenn I’ve been working on a complicated 20-panel oil painting for most of the year, which is getting close to completion (for an October show in Ft. Worth). On Friday, July 18th, I had the need to loosen up, so turned back to [...]