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| Fine Art | Products | Hot Air Gun Working |
 | Kirsty Stewart's
success with encaustic art despite limited sight and restricted mobility |
| Due to major health issues I have had vision and mobility problems since I was eight. When I was ten my Mum bought an encaustic art starter pack after seeing it demonstrated at the Exeter Craft Show. I was given that set for Christmas 1992.
I took to it immediately and have spent many happy hours, having taken over the breakfast bar,creating different effects. My first efforts were soon bettered and I am frequently very happy with my results. I have made cards and relief pictures for my family and friends. I have even had three of my encaustic artworks printed by a major printer and sold as the School Christmas card for ' The School for Children with Little or No Sight', Exeter, which I attend. |
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| The artwork was a patterned form designed to go behind a cut out front page design. This allows the viewer a glimpse of the artwork through the front cover. It also adds texture to the final | piece, which is an added quality especially appreciated by those with little or no sight. The text of Season's Greetings is also embossed into a braille equivalent so that all can easily appreciate the message being sent. |
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Recently paralyzed from the waist down, I find Encaustic Art even more therapeutic as I don't have to have an image in mind when I start. The picture unfolds as I go and the finishing touches are added as appropriate. I have spent many happy hours creating my 'master pieces' and the starter kit has long since grown into a major selection of tools and waxes. Kirsty Stewart - 1999 (now aged 18 years) |
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