Portland artist Claudia Hollister celebrates abundant garden blooms with a vintage appeal in Exquisite Blues, an exhibition of delicate cyanotype prints developed in sunlight, and luminous encaustic paintings. 

Attend her Artist's Talk this Saturday at 4:00 pm to learn about her process and meet her during the opening reception from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

Hollister has worked in encaustic, a mixture of beeswax, pigment, and damar resin, as her chosen art medium for many years. She began teaching encaustic painting at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2012, sharing her signature techniques developed for that medium. She is particularly recognized for including dimensional encaustic forms superimposed over a painted background.

During the Covid lockdown in 2020, the artist turned to her garden for respite and inspiration, photographing still life compositions of her fulsome garden blooms in vintage vases and turning them into cyanotype prints. This process combines photographic negatives and sensitized art paper to develop images through exposure to sunlight, resulting in beautiful shades of cyan blues.