"When you feel you are being moved by the creative spirit,
you are in fact being moved by the divine feminine."
- Teri Degler
The word encaustic comes from Greek and means 'to burn in.' Encaustic painting with beeswax is an ancient method of painting having been described by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder in his Natural History from the 1st Century AD. The oldest surviving encaustic panel paintings are the Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portraits from the 1st Century.
Robin Rezende references her encaustic paintings as 'remembrances of nature,' each one a fragmented memory of her time spent wandering the coastlines of the Emerald Isle, roaming the Dales of England, or wandering through the pine-coned forests of the Southern US.
"The smell of the beeswax as it melts is what initially drew me to work in encaustic," Robin states of her love affair with the medium. "And then I became mesmerized by the consistency and motion of the beeswax as it melds with the wooden surface. Encaustic painting truly impacts all of the senses." Then she adds, "There is also my pure unadulterated love of honeybees themselves, to whom I'm very grateful for the beeswax. Honeybees make the world go 'round."