Mixed Media
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 1'
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation I' draws from my experience of the 2025 Spring Ice Storm in Northern Ontario. Through photo-encaustic techniques and drawing on neurobiological parallels , I connect nature’s freeze-thaw cycles and the amygdala’s... More
Mixed Media
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 2'
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation II' explores the paradox of fragility and resilience in winter landscapes. Part of a six-panel photo-encaustic mixed media series, this work transforms my photographic imagery into textured surfaces that depict... More
Mixed Media
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 3'
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 3' draws from my experience of the 2025 Spring Ice Storm in Northern Ontario. Through photo-encaustic techniques and drawing on neurobiological parallels , I connect nature’s freeze-thaw cycles and the amygdala’s... More
Mixed Media
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 4'
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 4' draws from my experience of the 2025 Spring Ice Storm in Northern Ontario. Through photo-encaustic techniques and drawing on neurobiological parallels , I connect nature’s freeze-thaw cycles and the amygdala’s... More
Mixed Media
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 5'
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 5' draws from my experience of the 2025 Spring Ice Storm in Northern Ontario. Through photo-encaustic techniques and drawing on neurobiological parallels , I connect nature’s freeze-thaw cycles and the amygdala’s... More
Mixed Media
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 6'
'Beauty in Frozen Devastation 6' draws from my experience of the 2025 Spring Ice Storm in Northern Ontario. Through photo-encaustic techniques and drawing on neurobiological parallels , I connect nature’s freeze-thaw cycles and the amygdala’s... More
Mixed Media
'Calm Place II'
'Calm Place II', from my 'Taming Grief' series, investigates the intersection of emotional processing and environmental systems. Using encaustic methods with photographic imagery, beeswax, alcohol ink, and pigmented shellac, I reference the... More
Mixed Media
'Ecosystems Encaustic Tapestry'
In 'Ecosystems Encaustic Tapestry' (2025), I re-contextualize the deer imagery from the film 'Leave the World Behind' alongside my personal experience of a climate-induced surge in local white-tail deer. Using layered photo-encaustic techniques... More
Mixed Media
'Monster Wave'
In this work, I use photo-encaustic mixed media to examine the parallels between emotional regulation and ecological disruption. The wave imagery reflects both coastal instability and the nervous system’s stress responses, highlighting how internal... More
Mixed Media
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Fall (3)'
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Fall (3), 10" x 80" Acrylic Mixed-Media on Canvas, Lisa Skelding 2025. In this series I use mixed-media layers to connect seasonal climate disruption with personal experience. Drawing on deer imagery and... More
Mixed Media
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Spring' (1)
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Spring (1), 10" x 80" Acrylic Mixed-Media on Canvas, Lisa Skelding 2025. In this series I use mixed-media layers to connect seasonal climate disruption with personal experience. Drawing on deer imagery... More
Mixed Media
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Summer (2)'
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Summer (2), 10" x 80" Acrylic Mixed-Media on Canvas, Lisa Skelding 2025. In this series I use mixed-media layers to connect seasonal climate disruption with personal experience. Drawing on deer imagery... More
Mixed Media
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Winter (4)'
'Unfolding Tapestry of Ecosystem Colours in Winter (4), 10" x 80" Acrylic Mixed-Media on Canvas, Lisa Skelding 2025. In this series I use mixed-media layers to connect seasonal climate disruption with personal experience. Drawing on deer imagery... More
Mixed Media
'Wildfire'
Trained in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, I draw on metaphors like the “relationship vortex” to explore parallels between emotional and ecological upheaval. My photo-encaustic mixed-media works, including pieces based on NASA's 2023 wildfire... More
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Lisa Skelding
Contemporary Abstract Impressionism
“ I use photo-encaustic (beeswax) layers to explore how the autonomic nervous system and Earth’s climate systems mirror each other under stress, both carrying the potential for rupture,...” [More]