WELCOME...

Edna Paine, Artist, grew up in South Africa where her love of nature led her to apply this interest and knowledge to her drawings and paintings. She subsequently attained her qualifications as a commercial artists.

Many of Edna's paintings have been shown in exhibitions in South Africa and England. These include several sell out one man shows.

Over a period of five years she had nine of her wildlife paintings accepted in the International P.A.W.S. Competition where only 100 works were selected each year from an average total of 1,500 entries. Two of these paintings were selected as Best Acrylic and Best Oil in show.

Edna has recently discovered Encaustic Wax, which is a very ancient medium and has fallen in love with it. She finds the medium fascinating both artistically and historically. It was first used over 2,000 years ago by Egyptions then Greeks and Romans.

Edna makes her own encaustic colours with beeswax, pigments and resin and enjoys painting intuitivly by allowing the paintings to evolve as layers are added or scraped away. She intends to hold workshops using encaustic in the near future and can be contacted at Leigh Art Studio, tel. 07816 562 421.

To see some more of my work please go to the Leigh-on-sea Website, click on the tab 'What's On' and go to 'The Artisits Forum'.