Learning the Way of It

$1650

"Learning the Way of It" is an encaustic mixed media piece by Bridgette Guerzon Mills that includes transfers, stitched textiles, collage, and surface explorations like carving into the wax. Encaustic is a painting medium made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin. Encaustic paint is applied with a brush and then fixed by heat. This painting was created on a 2.5 inch deep cradled wood panel. It is unframed, but ready to hang. Free Shipping!

Materials

Encaustic mixed media

Dimensions

Width: 24"
Height: 24"
Depth: 2.5"

Gently, Listening To Spirit

$1720

Gently Listening to Spirit is an encaustic mixed media painting that includes textiles. Encaustic is a painting medium made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and damar resin. Encaustic paint is applied with a brush and then fixed by heat. This painting is framed in a black float frame and is ready to hang. Free Shipping!

Materials

encaustic mixed media including cloth

Dimensions

Width: 24"
Height: 24"

The Path Through the Serpentine

$875

Landscape painting of a path winding through the tall grasses of the unique serpentine ecosystem. Textured oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas. Unframed. Free shipping!

Materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Width: 18"
Height: 24"

Sunset Over the Farm

$680

Contemporary oil landscape painting of the sun going down behind the distant treeline behind a white barn tucked back between trees and hills. Painted mainly with a palette knife, this painting has a vibrant yet quiet feel to it at the same time. Free Shipping!

Materials

oil on gallery wrapped canvas

Dimensions

Width: 16"
Height: 20"

Badwater Basin

$1400

A minimalist landscape of the desert surrounded by mountains is captured in this contemporary encaustic landscape. Encaustic is a painting medium made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and damar resin. Encaustic paint is applied with a brush and then fixed by heat. Framed in a black float frame. Free shipping!

Materials

encaustic on cradled wood panel

Dimensions

Width: 24"
Height: 18"

Seen and Unseen

$1200

Seen and Unseen is a moody encaustic mixed media that includes a transfer of treetop imagery and embedded papers. This painting is already framed. Shipping is also included

Materials

encaustic mixed media on cradled wood panel

Dimensions

Width: 16"
Height: 20"

What Remained of Scattered Belongings

$1200

"What Remained of Scattered Belongings" is an encaustic mixed media painting of white bowl. This painting is filled with textures and layers and about excavating personal history. This painting is framed in a contemporary black float frame.

Materials

encaustic mixed media on cradled wood panel

Dimensions

Width: 16"
Height: 20"

Unconditional

$420

"Unconditional" is a mixed media collage painting by Bridgette Guerzon Mills. "Unconditional" was created on stretched canvas using acrylic, ink, photo image, graphite, fabric and vintage paper. This piece has been framed in a gray wood frame.

Materials

collage mixed media

Dimensions

Width: 10"
Height: 20"

The Dance

$550

"The Dance" is an encaustic mixed media painting that features winter tree branches. This piece has been framed in a black float frame and is ready to hang. Free shipping!

Materials

encaustic mixed media on cradled wood

Dimensions

Width: 12"
Height: 12"

Finding That Quiet Place

$225

Finding That Quiet Place is an encaustic mixed media piece that includes metal as well as bark. This piece piece has an ethereal quality due to the layers of encaustic medium. Encaustic is a painting medium made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and damar resin. Encaustic paint is applied with a brush and then fixed by heat. This painting is framed in a black float frame, finished measurements are 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches. Free Shipping!

Materials

encaustic mixed media, including bark and metal

Dimensions

Width: 7"
Height: 5"

Tell Me a Story

$445

Contemporary landscape encaustic mixed media painting. This piece was painted on an upcycled piece of floorboard. Salvaged copper with a beautiful patina lines the bottom. This piece has been framed in a contemporary black float frame. Outer dimensions with frame are 15 x 13 1/2 x1 3/8 inches

Materials

encaustic with salvaged wood and copper,

Dimensions

Width: 13 1/4"
Height: 12"

Preparing for Spring

$815

Preparing for Spring features two trees, stripes and pink polka dots. This painting measues 21x12 inches and is framed in a custom black float frame, ready to hang. Free Shipping!

Materials

encaustic mixed media

Dimensions

Width: 12"
Height: 21"

Tender Passages

$225

"Tender Passages" is an encaustic mixed media piece by Bridgette Guerzon Mills. This piece includes moth and butterfly wings embedded in the encaustic surface. Encaustic is a painting medium made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin. Encaustic paint is applied with a brush and then fixed by heat. This piece is framed in a black float frame and ready to hang. Finished framed dimensions are: 8 1/4 x 6 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches. Free Shipping!

Materials

encaustic mixed media, including moth and butterfly wings

Dimensions

Width: 5"
Height: 7"

Earth Tracks

$150

Earth Tracks is an encaustic mixed media piece that includes stitched rusted fabric. The artist built the frame for this small piece with pine pieces to complete the natural feel. The final measurements 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches.

Materials

encaustic, rusted cloth, wood

Dimensions

Width: 4 3/4"
Height: 6"

The Fox

$300

"The Fox" is an encaustic mixed media painting by Bridgette Guerzon Mills of a fox walking through brambles and trees in winter. Encaustic is a painting medium made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin. Encaustic paint is applied with a brush and then fixed by heat. This piece is framed in a black float frame and ready to hang. Free Shipping!

Materials

encaustic mixed media on cradled wood panel

Dimensions

Width: 8"
Height: 8"

The Sparrow

$350

The Sparrow is a mixed media painting on gallery wrapped canvas by Bridgette Guerzon Mills. So many layered bits on this mixed media painting! There's some collage, oil paint, gouache and even a little encaustic. This painting is unframed. Free Shipping!

Materials

mixed media on canvas

Dimensions

Width: 12"
Height: 9"
Depth: 5/8"

Common Redshank

$120

The Common Redshank is a wetlands bird, often seen stepping around in the shallows. This is a gouache painting of the Common Redshank on watercolor paper and is matted to a finished size of 12 x9 inches. The opening of the mat measures 4x4 inches. Free Shipping!

Materials

mat, gouache on watercolor paper

Dimensions

Width: 9"
Height: 12"

Hermit Thrush

$120

Matted gouache painting of the Hermit Thrush. Opening of the mat measures 4 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches. Outside dimensions of the mat is 9x12 inches. Free shipping!

Materials

matted gouche painting on paper

Dimensions

Width: 9"
Height: 12"

The Black-billed Magpie

$120

Gouache painting of the Black-billed Magpie on watercolor paper. This 4x4 inch painting is matted with a white archival mat that measures 12 x9 inches. Free Shipping!

Materials

matted painting of gouache on paper

Dimensions

Width: 9"
Height: 12"

Scarlet Tanager

$120

A sweet gouache painting of a Scarlet Tanager mounted on acid free foam core and matted with an archival white matboard. The opening of the matboard is 4x4 inches. The outside measurements of the matboard is 12x9 inches. All you need is a frame! Free Shipping!

Materials

Gouache on paper, white mat

Dimensions

Width: 9"
Height: 12"

Wetlands Restoration

$140

"Wetlands Restoration" is a gouache painting by Bridgette Guerzon Mills on 140 lb coldpress paper. This contemporary landscape was inspired by a day spend on the wetlands working on an oyster habitat restoration project.

Materials

gouache on coldpress 140 lb paper.

Dimensions

Width: 8"
Height: 6"

Padilla Bay Study

$140

Gouache painting of a dirt path through the wildgrass going towards the bay.

Materials

gouache on watercolor paper

Dimensions

Width: 8.5"
Height: 5.5"

Peachy Tulip

$180

"Peachy Tulip" is a gouache painting on paper by Bridgette Guerzon Mills. Image size is 6x5 inches, with a white mat that fits a white 10x8 frame. Ready to hang!

Materials

gouache on paper

Dimensions

Width: 5"
Height: 6"

Tree Book

$125

Bridgette Guerzon Mills' one-of-a-kind handbound TreeBooks are especially made for those who have an affinity for trees. The covers are made from the bark of trees that fell in her neighborhood during a crazy wind storm. For two years they have been drying out, waiting to be transformed into a book, a vessel for mixed media creations on its pages, a sculpture to sit on your mantel? You pick! TreeBook Three measures 7 1/4 x 6 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches 20 handmade pages (40 including both sides). The paper is a textured handmade paper made from natural fibers.

Materials

tree bark, waxed linen thread, handmade paper

Dimensions

Width: 6 5/8"
Height: 7 1/4"
Depth: 2 1/2"