AshesToAshes

In his review of the WPA/C’s 9×10 show #6, Keith Mellema of The Fall Church News Press writes of my work

“Jackie Hoysted has some rather intriguing abstracts using encaustic, paper and tobacco juice stains from cigarette butts she’s smoked. The depth of art isn’t always readily apparent and this is a fine example there of. Having quit smoking six weeks ago, Hoysted took her former vice and made art out of it. The brown-toned tobacco stains are placed on paper burned at the edges. The encaustic adding a warmed toned wash to it all. The burned paper edges representing the damage she has done to her body through her years of smoking. It’s nice to see her working through her tobacco addiction and leaving something positive behind. Here’s to her conquering it. “

Read the full article here.

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