Kelly Thorson is a painter from Penzance, Saskatchewan. She has been a practicing artist for over 30 years and had her first solo showing in 1992.
Kelly is excited to explore different mediums and techniques and enjoys the chemistry of making her own paints and substrates from raw materials and repurposing leftovers and previously used items. The past few years she has been focused mainly on painting with beeswax, resin and pigments. The history of encaustic as one of the oldest existing forms of art is in keeping with her passion for ancient art forms and she finds the tactile, luminous and spontaneous unpredictability of the fluid wax when fused with a torch challenging and intriguing.