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Thank you for visiting my photostream...... : D

Hello, my name is Silvana and my passion is Encaustic painting. The nature of my work allows for experimentation of materials without getting caught up in any limitations of medium, style or discipline.
My work is done with a hot air gun, an iron and a stylus often working late into the night, after a full day of being a wife, a mother and giving workshops in Encaustic painting.
All of my tools have to be plugged in. There are more things to burn yourself on than a welding shop. Encaustic technique was not invented by fragile ladies, it was invented by ancient Greek fisherman to seal their boats against the harsh storms of the Mediterranean.
Today’s technique of using molten wax is that whenever the iron touches it, the wax colour melts and can be re-worked, so I can continue to change my artwork until I am happy with it. I find it an exciting medium, fun, and very addictive.

My inspiration and influences come from my Pagan belief and my love for life. From the connections I’ve made with different cultures, people, religions and countries. From this beautiful world we live in and the love that we share among us.

I started taking digital photos in late 2006. Learning how to use my camera and image editing software has been a fascinating journey. Photography has provided another outlet for my creative nature and continues to provide balance between the scientific/logical and artistic/spiritual sides of me.

Hope you enjoy!

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
~Anais Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
~Anais Nin

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~Anais Nin
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All of my images are under copyright. Please don't use any of my pictures without my written permission. Contact me via Flickrmail if you want to use my images. Or visit Redbubble if you want to buy them.



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As one of my contacts so deliciously put it: .....
"If you have placed noisy, screaming ugly and very annoying awards with no serious comment and on a regular basis,or advertising with your own pictures.............you might have been blocked!"

I would like to add, if you have favoured, added my work to your gallery or made me your contact without having any images in your photostream to show, you will surely have been blocked.






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A big thank you to my friend Mark Bentley for his beautiful Artwork