Shary Bartlett

Shary Bartlett is a Canadian artist residing in Vancouver, Canada. Her paintings are held in public and private collections in Canada and around the world. She teaches art workshops globally and nationally and has been a long-time fine arts instructor at Capilano University, Langara College and Red Deer College. Shary’s encaustic mixed media work and techniques are published in the books, Encaustic Art in the 21st Century, and Encaustic Revelation. Her personally curated encaustic wax pigments sets, created with Enkaustikos Paints, are sold internationally.

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Classes with Shary Bartlett

Hot Fabrication: Sculpting Fabric, Fibre and Encaustic

Discover the amazing sculptural effects achieved when combining sweet-smelling encaustic beeswax with textiles and fibres. Learn how to sculpt fabrics and lacelike spunbonded fibres to create innovative encaustic sculptures, collage, and three-dimensional paintings. In this class you’ll learn about surface preparation and design, choosing readymade or hand-dying your own fabric, fusing, layering, colouring, surface detailing, safety tips and more.

Finding Creative Flow

We all know the enchanting feeling of being lost in Creative Flow, when we’re “in the zone,” completely absorbed and in love with the experience of making, and exploring the magnificence and exhilarating possibilities of encaustic wax. We lose track of time and self-awareness, feel joyful, and work in powerful partnership with the challenges and possibilities that this fluid (yet solid) waxy medium promises. What are the characteristics of being in the Creative Flow state? How do we cultivate this seemingly effortless - yet wildly elusive - state of being? Join Shary to learn about psychological research charting Creative Flow and tips on how to cultivate Flow in your creative encaustic practice.