Biography
Anne Staton Voillequé received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Idaho State University in 1988. Voillequé’s primary emphasis was metals, although she worked in the mediums of oil, printmaking, fibers, papermaking, and sculpture. Her metalwork has been exhibited in select galleries in Cannon Beach, Oregon, and Boise. Voillequé’s piece “Night of the Fawn” was featured in Jewelry/Metalwork SURVEY #3 in 1993.
“Encaustic resonates with sensual materiality. The aromatic scent of hot honeyed beeswax is an intoxicating perfume. Tactile, textured surfaces reveal and conceal. The jewel-like, transparent, and deeply saturated colors orchestrate complex image layers and allow for finely tuned compositions. One can produce physical and ethereal pieces which spotlight luminosity, unpredictability, mystery, and transformation. Encaustic has become my medium of choice; it provides me a chance to employ techniques from other disciplines, but each piece is subject to the whims of the process by which the art is made.”