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DANIELLA WOOLF
Daniella
Woolf holds a Masters Degree in Design from UCLA, and a B.A. in Art
from California State University at Northridge. Her work has been
exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Tapestry
Biennial in Lausanne and the Mini Textiles Exhibit in London. She has
installed numerous architectural commissions and is in many corporate
and private collections. She is a member of the Surface Design
Association, and the West Coast Encaustic Artists.
Daniella has studied with Eve-Marie Bergren and Cynthia Winika at R and
F paints. She also teaches workshops on Encaustic Painting in her two
studios.
Daniella works in encaustic, an ancient technique in which melted,
pigmented beeswax is painted onto wood panel. She combines subtle and
bold patterns integrated with objects that she embeds in the molten
wax, and then she coats her paintings with luminous layers of color.
One of her distinctive techniques is to embed an emotionally charged
backdrop of rich colors, patterns and textures with shredded text
filled with secret memories.
Her paintings reflect her background in textile structures, and
exemplify a textile sensibility. They are angular and mathematical
while also having a dream-like quality. Daniella transforms remnants of
time and personal history into a relevant contemporary archaeology.
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Artist Statement
This body of work, loosely entitled Spaces Between Words, is inspired
by my ongoing ritual of journaling. Each morning, I write three
hand-written pages of stream of consciousness thoughts and memories.
Every once in a while something unexpected and surprising emerges
through this writing. I cut these pages up and embed them in my work,
using a perfect and durable medium, beeswax. The result is a newly
formed language set in a lush backdrop of color and texture. The secret
contents are intact yet undecipherable.
It is natural for me to begin with the grid, as my background is in
textile structures. I shift and deconstruct the grid to create
everything from an irregular format of shapes to a tight,
multidimensional field of pattern. The thread that runs through my work
is my love for and obsession with pattern, geometry, luscious color,
layering and translucency.
The medium I work in, encaustic, was practiced as early as 80 AD.
Pigment is added to the beeswax, saturating color and creating
luminosity. I paint the wax onto my surface when it is in a molten
state. I use a heat gun to fuse each layer.
My encaustic art produces ancient looking, yet contemporary, pieces.
This process allows me to transform remnants of time, personal history
and the environment into a language of artifacts, creating a personal
archaeology.
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