My father presented me with a delightfully smelling wooden box of chalk pastels when I was thirteen years old. Since then I have had a kinship to artmaking. In 1982 at Concordia University,  Montreal, Que., I graduated Magna Cum Laude in Fine Arts majoring in painting, then in 1993 a Diploma in Art Education. Since then my work has been shown in many juried exhibitions in Montreal and Ottawa. 

Materials that have gone through a metamorphosis and have developed a second life are aesthetically important to me. Such as, rusted metal parts eroded by the elements and vegetation altered by time. For several years now I have used beeswax as one of my mediums. This technique is called Encaustic or hot wax painting. The use of beeswax in art dates back to Egyptian portrait painting 100-300 A.D. Artists of the 21st century continue to use this medium. I wish to express the ever-evolving characteristics in nature by incorporating my photographs, chalk paint, Pan Pastels and beeswax.  

Contact: daisydesson@gmail.com

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Encaustic, chalk paint, collage, oil stick on wood cradle 22 by 30 inches

Cold wax, oil paint, collage, oil stick on wood cradle 22 by 30 inches

Cold wax, oil paint, collage on wood cradle
10 by 10 inches

Cold wax & oil paint, collage, coloured pencil, on wood cradle 10 by 10 inches

Encaustic, collage, chalk paint, coloured pencil on wood cradle
30 by 30 inches

Encaustic, collage, chalk paint, coloured pencil on wood cradle
24 by 30 inches

Encaustic, collage, chalk paint, oil stick on wood cradle
24 by 24 inches