Mary Kinzel Means (paintings)

Award winning artist Mary Kinzel Means has been creating as long as she can remember. Some of her earliest memories were watching her Grandfather, artist Henry Kinzel, in his studio. “My Grandfather’s studio was mesmerizing, full of odds and ends with paintings strewn everywhere, the smell of turpentine thick, I was in awe!".

The artist primarily paints in encaustics, which is a combination of oil paints mixed in hot wax applied with a blow torch.  "I'm fascinated with the textural/sculptural nature of encaustic painting,  as a ceramicist, I find it immensely satisfying".