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Virtual Art Walk Weekend Artist Spotlight: Nicole Fournier My passion for photography was first revealed in a fourth-grade class trip to Washington D.C. when I slipped away to photograph a spiral staircase. This fascination with photography became a path followed, leading me to obtain a BFA graduating cum laude, to a professional career in fine arts and photography. My art is a combination of photography and encaustic. I transfer images I've photographed directly into an enca...ustic (wax) medium and embellish them with colored wax mediums I make from oil-based or powder pigments. Encaustic painting is one of the oldest forms of art known to man. Samples can be seen as far back as the Egyptian Fayum Mummy portraits which are over 2,500 years old. Encaustic paintings are resistant to moisture, acid, and mold, and thus contain excellent archival properties. I enjoy the wide range of possibilities inherent in this technique the evocative and distressed tones, and especially the additive and subtractive qualities that come along with the process. Through my art, I continue to express concepts of growth and awareness, and to promote the preservation of our external environment, as well as the cultivation of our inner. Located at the Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles, I have been participating in this community's biannual open studio events since 2007, and I also teach encaustic workshops held there in my studio. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in my art, want to be added to my show announcement list, or to learn more about my encaustic and photo transfer workshops. Thank you for your interest! website/contact info: www.nicolefournier.com "And yet he still speaks loud", 13"H x 15"W - encaustic (photo transfer/mixed media) . "Tree study, no.3", 35H x 23W "Go", 18H x 24 inches "Towered", 18 x 30 inches

Virtual Art Walk Weekend Artist Spotlight: Bruce Dean studio Bruce Dean received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis Art Institute in 1974 with a major in painting and a minor in drawing.... Bruce has worked as an exhibiting abstract artist; editorial, corporate and advertising illustrator and international poster artist for over forty years. As an illustrator he received a silver medal from The Society of Illustrators and numerous awards of merit from national and international publications. His fine art posters and illustrations have been featured in numerous books and magazines. He has participated in over thirty solo and group gallery exhibitions nation-wide. His work includes projects funded by grants from the Department of Education and the Foundation for Global Community. www.brucedeanart.com Eco - oil on panel - 48" x 36" - 2020 La Llegada - oil on panel - 36" x 48" - 2020 La Salida - oil on panel - 30" x 20" - 2020

Virtual Art Walk Weekend Artist Spotlight: Jason Hadley Jason Hadley was born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma in a house full of artists and musicians and spent much of his childhood in and around the University of Oklahoma art department where his dad was a professor. After a year of enrollment in the art program at OU, however, he felt like he had been in his hometown long enough and moved to Northampton, MA.... After two years on the east coast Hadley came to Los Angeles and started working in film and television doing props and set decoration. in 1991 he started the band Woodpussy with a crowd of likeminded artists and weirdos. The band was often more art than music with elaborate sets and costumes. When Woodpussy ended, Hadley began focusing on visual art with a musical element rather than the other way around. https://www.instagram.com/hadleyart/ http://www.jasonhadley.com/

Virtual Art Walk Weekend Artist Spotlight: Carol Ayres Fear and flowers/miedo y flores... Quarantine 2020