The medium of encaustic; a molten beeswax paint mixed with resin and dry pigments, allows me to escape the confines of everyday artist's techniques and provides me with more exploratory means of expression. Its qualities are sublime and unpredictable, additive and subtractive, translucent and sculptural, which has strongly influenced my departure from realism to abstraction. This ancient technique has become my method of navigating the obscure terrain of imagination and memory.

Robin Luciano Beaty received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998 . Since graduating, she has held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. as an art instructor, a professional illustrator, graphic designer and an assistant to an internationally known artist. In 2003, Robin began concentrating solely on her own art, working out of her studio in Newbury, Ma, while traveling and painting extensively in Europe and Latin America. Represented in many private and corporate collections, her award winning work can also be found in galleries around New England, numerous group and juried shows, annually at the prestigious Mass Art Benefit Auction and at the Newburyport Art Association, which she is a member of and recently won the “Laura Coombs Hills Award for Excellence.