Tina Elkins Art - Paintings

Tina Elkins- about the artist

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Tina Elkins is an artist who draws her inspiration from nature, science and history. She brings the imagery of the expansive, changeable sky into her paintings as visual form of an elemental force, a concept from science. An early interest in physics has continued to be a strong influence on her work, so there are many paintings with the theme of unseen forces that bind existence together. She is also interested in the systems people have developed to make sense of the world and their place in it. Language, mythology and the lens of history are the human ways to put the world in order. Much of her work touches on the balance of natural forces and human systems.

 

Tina Elkins is based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has long worked for American Greetings Corporation as a photography stylist on greeting card product. Tina is also a photographer and enjoys working behind the camera almost as much as styling in front of it.

Most of Tina’s paintings are done in encaustic or oil based media. After years of painting in oil and experimenting with other media and techniques, she started working almost exclusively in encaustic in 2003. Encaustic has been the perfect medium for layering, collage, image transfers, translucent effects, building up both tangible textures or slick smooth surfaces. The flexibility of working techniques coupled with the nearly instant dry, stable surface has made the medium perfect for the kind of layering and translucent effects Tina is interested in.

This literally ancient painting medium of pigments mixed into hot melted beeswax has enjoyed an tremendous revival in recent years. New technologies and electric studio tools and equipment has made the medium more accessible and easier to work in. The improved tools and greater availability of materials has opened up this medium to many contemporary artists.​

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