Artist StatementArtist CV
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Video
Acrylic & Mixed Media
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Ocean Streeter
8x10inch
Encaustic with wax pastels
Artist StatementArtist CV
Styly
Video
Acrylic & Mixed Media
Styly
Ocean Streeter
8x10inch
Encaustic with wax pastels
Ocean Streeter is an encaustic artist based in Toronto, Ontario. They have been practicing this medium since 2013 and have co-taught encaustic workshops at Southampton Art Centre annually since 2019. Ocean teaches alongside their mother, Marianne Gibson, who initially began instructing the weekend workshop with Gail Streeter in 2012. Ocean received a Diploma in Visual & Digital Art from Humber Polytechnic in 2026. Ocean’s work exhibits interest in the natural, life/death and the mind's conception. Relevant experience and understanding result in her artwork having a youthful sense of play, nostalgia, and freedom. There is strength in the ability to manipulate a medium in order to say what words cannot.
6x6inch
Image Transfer on Wood Board
12x36inch
Encaustic Collage on Wood Panel
8x8inch Encaustic Image Transfer
6x12inch
Encaustic Collage on Wood Panel
6x6inch
Encaustic and PanPastel on Wood Panel
10x10inch
Encaustic Image Transfer, PanPastel and Wax Crayons on Wood Panel
Experimental film, using a DSLR and resin-based filters with encaustic medium. Non-narrative short film exploring the threshold of cinema as an artistic medium.
Experimental film, using a DSLR and resin-based filters with encaustic medium. The song is Sycamore by Bill Callahan. Non-linear visual storytelling, which captures the essence of performance as inherent to observation.
Mixed media animation, using resin-based filters with encaustic medium. The song is Light My Fire by The Doors. Exploring mark-making in a moving image.
16x24inch
Acrylic on Canvas
6x12inch
Acrylic on Canvas
16x24inch
Acrylic On Canvas
10x10inch
Metalpoint on Gessoed Board
I primarily paint with encaustic. This medium has been in my family since I was four. My love for the medium grew stronger and more meaningful as I watched my mother and grandmother share it with our community. When I was about six, I started to attend their art fairs at least twice a year. I have now been working in this medium for over a decade.
Encaustic is a hot process; each layer must be fused to the layer below. When using wax to create, I experience other sensory stimulation: warmth, texture, and smell, for instance, as well as the power of visual representation. Artmaking in this manner is, to me, the ultimate form of creation. My markmaking builds up, and as layers become less visible, I pick and choose what content I find relevant to the composition. Often, I am employing organic forms to explore themes of human experience. Using techniques such as collage, image transfer and layering, my encaustic artwork follows a recipe; however, the final product is always changing.
My art depicts my creative mind using simple shapes and forms. There is strength in the ability to manipulate the medium to say exactly what I feel, while knowing each viewer will experience the artwork differently. I strive to create a sense of relatability with the viewer through visuals that are open to interpretation. I am fascinated by what the eye chooses to see in relation to visual art. I trust that my intention for any particular encaustic painting is always working with my subconscious as I create.