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Encaustic Painting Workshops - with Ezshwan Winding By Linda Lamb If you've ever wanted to paint with fire (and let's be honest, who hasn't?), encaustic workshops are your ticket - melted beeswax, pigment, heat – it's pure alchemy. There's nothing quite like the tactile, layered quality of encaustic painting. Several local artists offer small-group intensives where you can explore either cold or hot wax mediums here in San Miguel. My personal favorite is Ezshwan Winding, who guides students through the ancient, yet endlessly modern art of encaustic painting. Her classes are a joyful journey of technique, experimentation and hands-on fun. It's painting with fire, yes - but it's also meditation, finesse and magic all in one. Ezshwan herself is a force of nature: passionate, soulful and brimming with a creative energy that fills her studio like music. That's no accident – she spent years alongside her late husband, legendary jazz trombonist Kai Winding, whose spirit of improvisation and rhythm still lingers in the air to inspire. Just like jazz, encaustic art invites you to loosen up, play with the unexpected, and embrace happy accidents. Best to come with no expectations because this art form is a lesson in pure surprise. Ezshwan offers encaustic and cold wax workshops, and welcomes vacation workshops through Vacation With an Artist. By the end of your class with her, you won't just walk away with a one-of-a-kind creation, I guarantee you'll leave with a little more fire in your creative soul.

In this time of upheaval...

I had to do some soul searching about the importance of making new paintings in this time of gobal upheaval and I came to the conclusion that it is vital to create as much beauty as possible for myself and all others. I tried to post a video of an older video I made about choosig peace, but I can't attach any links to this blog. What can I do about the crisis happening to the collective - unless you are a billionare? I am am old lady, living a quiet, peaceful life: teaching, mediating and creating and those small actions are enough. I carry the peace in my heart and hope to share it with all I meet. If you can't see the predictament this world is experiening, you can't "fix it" So I am considering that truth of the evil, greed and lies those in power are perpertrating now and have been perpertrating on the world for countless years can no longer be hidded. I made a decision that one small way I can express my support for those who are suffering with raging prices is to offer my online encasutic classes at a big reduction, so any who are interested in expanding their thoughts and creativing to choose our own inner peace and hope. The link to the online clasees is; vimeo.com/ondemand/theencausticacademy - sorry that I can't post a live link, but for the month of April, 2026 the cost is only $99 from $199 for all 14 classes.

Someof my "Sweet Deams" painting were chosen for an art book

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Time for new work

Recently,I had the pleasure of hosting several encaustic workshops - all included family members. I appreciate meeting all the new creatives that I wouldn't have met without the workshops. Yesterday, I took a deep breath and cleaned the studio. It needed it after I spent the last week working on a diptych.

Today, I am enthused to start a new painting, probably with a different color palette. I am thinking of a warm red. We'll see where it goes. Here's a nice interview of me and my work. Thank you Artsy Shark

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Encasutic Workshops in San Miguel de Allende

still teaching and loving it.