Barbara Walton

Meditations on Nature: The Encaustic Paintings of Barbara Walton

Extended through July 31!

Join us at Bos Meadery in honoring Barbara Walton's prolific waxen-works.

Barbara Walton lives and works in Ames, Iowa where she is a professor of art at the Iowa State University. Her works generally portray, in a rather poetic fashion, her belief that nature is a strong and active force in our lives. We are not separate from nature but rather one with it.

Walton's mastery of the encaustic medium and her interest in sustainability has launched a collaboration between herself and the science department at the University of Iowa. They are working to develope a safer and more sustainable alternative to beeswax or petrol-based microcrystalline waxes often used in encaustic painting.