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WCEA Member Artist Profile
Carol Paxton Juliano
Born in Montreal, Canada, in 1959, Carol Paxton Juliano grew up speaking French and was raised in a multi cultural
neighborhood where she adopted painting at a very young age. At the age of nine Carol and a few classmates were
selected to create a large mosaic that was exhibited in the Canadian pavilion at the International Art Exhibition,
Expo '67.
Before moving to California in 1997, Carol worked in a gallery helping clients, (private and corporate) acquire
pieces related to their collection. Carol's own creativity re-emerged in 1997. She re-embarked on her creative
path by taking an oil painting class. Since then she has taken workshops in mixed media and several in encaustic.
With many pieces, Carol constructs and improvises a space with distorted lines spanning the piece. The
superposition of many layers glows with light. In some works, a current of gravity, plays with semi-transparencies
that flow across with fragmenting line.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Since my first encounter with encaustic, the intensity and luminosity of beeswax and dammar resin lured me into
its hidden depths. The complexity of mixing colors in this medium has an alchemic nature, a character which
continues to fascinate me. One is always compensating for the slight soft hue of the beeswax.
For me, getting to know the wax is an ongoing process. It's a labor of love to gently coax it into position.
At times it can be very physical to lift off the top skin of wax and reveal the subsurface. I find myself
feeling sometimes as though it's a surgical process, to splice and graft new skins after scraping the old.
I like the juxtaposition of smooth and wrinkled.
I enjoy employing the properties of line, or the mere suggestion of line, sometimes erasing lines.
SAMPLES OF ENCAUSTIC ART
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