inspired by nature, obsessed with color, ruled by process

Latest Project: Story Paintings

A work in progress - These images are  encaustic with mixed media bits.  Each has a story attached or some source of inspiration.   Find the stories and inspiration here: Story Painting

This is an on-going project

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Encaustic ​& Mixed Media

Landscapes and almost landscapes, also sketches, drawings, story paintings
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"Our Voice When We Are Silent" MRyding 2022

Take a Peek into the Encaustic Process

Beeswax + Damar Resin + Heat

It's an ancient medium with a new following.  The ancient Minoans and Egyptians have given us quite a gift.

a little bit about the artist

Merry Ryding has been painting for many years, these last 10 or so with the encaustic medium.  She works out of her studio in the Allegheny region of Pennsylvania.
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"The natural and the built environments that we inhabit inspire and influence the daily path we take and launch our creative work"

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​"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is."  Mason Cooley

When we look at a particular work of northwest coast art and see the shape of it, we are only looking at its after-ife.  Its real life is the movement by which it got to be that shape.  Bill Reid, Haida carver

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."
Mark Rothko, artist
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