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Leah Johnson layers wax,
resin and colored pigments
together to transform
canvases into encaustic
landscape paintings.
Leah Johnson: Firing up her creativity
The assistant vice president and marketing manager of $423 million-asset Community Bank in Joseph, Ore., has
drawn and painted since she was young. But she picked up a new creative medium, encaustic painting, after
seeing the art form firsthand.
I'd been painting for a while after college, but not very
often. I wanted a new inspiration, so a friend of mine and
I went to a workshop about seven years ago to learn about
encaustic. It was something we heard about it, [but] hadn't
really known much about. We thought [the workshop]
might be a cool getaway with friends. It turns out that it's
really interesting, so I came home and changed my whole
studio over to encaustic. It was the inspiration I was looking
for [to help me start] painting a little more passionately
than I had been.
It's so messy. The process is cool, because it's melting wax
and resin together. It's very hot. You paint that on while it's
liquid, and then it cools. You're able to layer things up. You
have to fuse each layer with a blowtorch or a heat gun. You
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get wax and resin everywhere. You're using fi re. It's a really
fun process.
You don't have to be so specific. I'm pretty detail oriented
when I draw or paint. Encaustic painting is one of
those things that releases that need to be very precise. It's
great for me, because it frees me to not worry so much
about [a piece] being exactly representational of what I was
going for.
With the marketing aspect of banking and painting,
both involve problem-solving. You're kind of looking
where you are, envisioning where you want to go and trying
to fi nd pathways to get there. In both areas, you're having to
get creative to reach your goal. -Eric Best
Photo: Kathryn Frenyea

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