Tricia Trinder is an encaustic artist known for her atmospheric porthole horizon series.
Tricia grew up in the UK, and after leaving school she worked for a short time in Paris, as an assistant to artist Armando Morales, before starting her foundation Art course. She now resides in Sydney with her Australian husband and her four children.
In her garden studio, she creates her ocean horizons using beeswax, damar resin and dry pigments. Tricia concentrates on how the light reflects on the water through different times of the day and types of weather. Her horizons give a sense of inner calmness and serenity and also encourages the viewer to contemplate what is beyond.
”I like to create the illusion of distance in my paintings using light and dark. I use texture to create the idea of waves and water, and light on the horizon to distinguish between times of day. Encaustic lends itself beautifully to images of water because the natural element of beeswax reflects the natural texture and translucency of water, also the unpredictability of how the wax responds each time I burn in the colour, reflects the unpredictability of the ocean and skies”
Tricia was one of the 13 founding artists of Sydney Road Gallery in Seaforth, and although she is no-longer part of the gallery she still exhibits there.