Sadhana Cook
I am an artistic creator of many things. I have always had a passion to portray what I experience in an appropriate medium and this has included acrylic and watercolour painting, traditional and experimental quilting, delicate arts such as designing and making jewellery, cross-stitch and stump-work and earthy natural arts like natural wool spinning and dyeing. And I have an ongoing passion for Cooking and Gardening.
I particularly focus on the colours and textures of Australia’s natural environment, and I am deeply concerned by the growing climatic threats in our world. I have adventured widely to many varied and remote parts of our country and experienced the vastness, depth and wonder of these environments.
In recent years I have discovered and been entranced by the ancient but now revived medium of artistic expression through beeswax . This is Encaustic Art in which wax, resin, pigments and shellac are combined and fused to create many different and exciting artistic effects and outcomes. The use of Alcohol Inks is also included in the media I now employ, giving an even wider range of movement, vibrancy and powerful contrasts in the outcomes produced.
For the last seven years I have been living in Tasmania and developing two large permaculture gardens with my husband. We have three children and six grandchildren and live in North-western Tasmania.