Connie Pickering-Stover

Storytelling through nonrepresentational forms and dynamic colors has been the focus of Stover’s intuitive abstracts. She approaches encaustic from a scientific angle as well as an artistic one, often experimenting with the optimum temperature to which the ingredients, including oil and pigment are combined. The results are lively, organic forms that dance across the surface. Her paintings highlight perhaps the best feature of encaustics (which, sensually rich as it is, encaustic is also cumbersome, a reason it is still more special than common) capturing an instant. Her creations appear capture the magical moment of a single gesture while still presenting a completely finished work.