Lorraine Glessner

I discovered the work of Lorraine Glessner in an article by Ruyak in the Surface Design Journal. Glessner uses many layers on silk to produce her work. These include encaustic medium, pigmented encaustic, paper, magazine or photographic images, burning, branding, rusting and composting. Her art takes a lot of time with composting alone taking between 3 weeks to 6 months. Glessner also uses horse hair in her images to draw patterns adapted form Google earth. She is quoted as saying “it’s all about birth, life, death and regeneration”.
Ruyak, J. 2008 Lorraine Glessner’s Layers of Meaning. Surface design Journal, v33 #1

Images available at http://home.earthlink.net/~lorigles/ accessed 11 January 2009