kate phillips art

My name is Kate Phillips and I come from the beautiful green hills of Southwest Scotland but currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area of California..
I have a degree in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art, where I studied printmaking. For the past 8 years I have been working in the encaustic medium, an ancient painting technique which is a laying of bees wax/resin and pigments fused together with a blowtorch. I trap old paper, fabric, thread and found images between these layers to create odd little worlds and moments.
When I’m not at my day job (working in a Library) or playing hide and seek with my wonderful 5 yr old son Finn, I work in my studio which is the front room of my house which is rather unfortunate because it’s the first thing anyone sees and is always rather messy.

http://www.charmfoundry.com