Eva Ennist

Travel has kindled my work for many years. I photograph cultural sites and awe-inspiring landscapes but also the art and craft found in everyday objects. The collection of images I bring home is often filled with forms like temple spires, baskets, woven structures in the landscape or refuse on a beach.
This body of encaustic and mixed media work revisits some of those places, objects and forms. The vehicle for my previous representation of South East Asia was a series of sculptures: assemblages of wire, reed, bamboo, concrete and handmade paper. This new series of pieces combines some original inspirational photographs as well as photographs and ideation drawings from the earlier sculptures – all together in a wax and pigment medium called encaustic painting. The two dimensions of the painted surfaces become three-dimensional when wire elements are embedded into the heated wax. Although the original objects may seem ambiguous in their new setting, there is a familiarity – a resemblance to the many objects and images depicted in my work for some 15 years.