Robyn Cole Artworks
  • About
    • Artist Statement
    • Resume
    • Contact Me
  • Available Works
    • 2020-2021
  • Workshops
    • Cold Wax and Oil
    • Beginning Encaustic
    • Photos from 2019 Workshops
  • Archived Work
  • 2019 Newsletter
    • Feb 2019 Solo Show
    • Online Article Feb 2019
    • Worth The Investment?
    • WooWoo Sales
    • Galentine'sDay
  • Slide Show "Authentic Lives: Transformation"
  • Jewelry Sculptures
  • Transformation Series
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An Abstract Artist Living
Abroad Returns Home


After decades as a successful graphic designer and marketing communications director in the
mad-paced Southern California business landscape,
I turned my attention to a new adventure and a new career.
I moved to Central America and began to focus on fine art. Recognition and sales took off. Seeking a larger market, I spent years establishing myself on the international art stage in the beautiful, colorful, antique city of San Miguel de Allende --  Mexico's art colony and culture capital.

2020's Covid-19 Pandemic brought me back home to Orange
​County, California, where I now reside and paint in Irvine.

Process, materiality and physicality is what speaks to me.
​I currently choose to work in both the cold wax/oil and 
​the encaustic paint mediums.

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Cold Wax

Pellets of beeswax are mixed with natural solvents to create a "mayonnaise-like" consistency. This cold wax is then mixed by the artist with pigments to achieve a cake frosting-type of consistency. It's fun, sensual and joyous!

The cold wax/oil paint process allows for more time to to explore, change and complete my message. Because its drying time is longer, I am allowed the freedom to try new techniques, to develop new directions. 




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Encaustic

Encaustic is hot beeswax melted with resin and color pigments to form the paint. I apply many layers of the hot, molten paint on a wood support, fusing each layer to the underlying one with a torch or heat gun. This produces a painting that can never fade, since the colors are permanently locked in the wax/resin. Encaustic is fluid, which allows my message to subtly change as I'm creating it. The luminosity of the medium allows for a painting with many layers, evoking many stories and inviting touch. Viewers are much more involved with a painting that can be touched as well as visually enjoying the sensual experience of encaustic. Both encaustic and cold wax mediums take me on elaborate, colorful journeys.