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LYN BELISLE

SAN ANTONIO

Lyn Belisle is a multidisciplinary artist embracing encaustic painting, earthenware,
digital imagery, sculpture, textiles and found objects. Her artwork gives expression
to her quest to discover and connect synchronistic shards of meaning through
collage and assemblage. She teaches mixed-media workshops at Lyn Belisle
Studio in San Antonio, and also teaches nationally, most recently in Santa Fe,
Provincetown, Washington State, and Taos. She has retired from the faculty in the
Computer Science Department at Trinity University to work full time at her studio
and has work at The Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe and in the San Antonio
Art League & Museum.

Statement:
My work has always been strongly influenced by the idea of “shards” as a
metaphor for human communication across time. A shard can be a found fragment
of clay, a rusty nail, a scrap of handwriting – any little clue that becomes a “secret
handshake” between the maker and the discoverer.

Human faces, ancient or contemporary, fascinate me as summaries of life stories
in the moment. Clay, paper, beeswax, and fiber are my instinctive, beloved media
but mark-making through abstract painting challenges me to develop my own
language of expression and translation.

The more aware I am of the little day-to-day incomplete clues that capture my
attention by calling to me in a mysterious way, and the more I take note of them,
the more understanding I gain about the purpose of my art as the re-assembling of
human narratives across time.

BOTTOM LEFT: TOP CENTER AND BOTTOM RIGHT:

Digital Divide 94: The Last Kimono Flights of Fancy
2022 2022

Constructed kimono form mounted on Fired earthenware, encaustic and beeswax,
stretched canvas panel with components of hand-dyed shredded silk, found objects,
used studio drop cloth (torn), hydrosoluable 38x17x10”
fiber, walnut ink, paper twine, surface 8 lb.
design, found objects, and a Noh-like mask $500
made of fired earthenware.
21x15x5
3 lb.
NFS