Joan Lowden, Artist:

My main artistic passion is music, jazz bass in particular, but I had explored visual arts in my youth and developed a renewed interest when I discovered encaustic painting several years ago.  Encaustic (from the Greek, "to burn") painting combines hot beeswax with colored pigments and dates back thousands of years. I am particularly enticed by the textural quality of encaustic painting, and the way that I can merge this ancient art with modern technology, such as digital photography, to create unique works of art.

Encaustic painting is quite similar to jazz because it is very improvisational - you might start with a plan, but the hot wax has a plan of its own, so the art comes from letting the materials ultimately guide the journey.

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My work has been shown at the Eastport Gallery, a constituent of the Eastport Arts Center and is now available at the Eastport Breakwater Gallery.  My current mission is to promote Eastport and Way DownEast as an arts destination through the ArtWalk Passport event series.  For more information visit - and LIKE:  Eastport ArtWalk Passport 2022