Linda Armacost - Encaustic & Cold Wax Artist

Frederick, Colorado

Linda Armacost is a wax/mixed media artist with a passion for abstraction. Following a

professional career in emergency medical services, she leaned into creative yearnings and

was introduced to painting with wax mediums and oil pigments…an age-old artform.

Fascinated by the immersive, tactile nature of working with wax - - and captivated by all

things weathered, distressed, organic, industrial and textured…. she enrolled in formal

instructional offerings and continues to learn and paint.

At present, Linda builds abstract wax paintings using both encaustic and cold wax medium

techniques. Hand-pulled prints she creates on absorbent papers are often applied to the

cradleboard substrate and inform her paintings. Repeated layers of waxed- paint

application and removal invite further texturing, marking and enhancement with tools, re-

purposed objects, heat, powders, punctures, oil/solvent washes, foils, sand, ash and more

recently, the occasional scavenged treasure.

An Ohio native, Linda has called Colorado “home” since 1978. She holds memberships with

Colorado’s Foothills Art Center, Art Students League of Denver and the international Cold

Wax Academy.

Artist’s Statement: I believe the acts of creating and sharing allow us to hold space for transformation and

healing….at once very personal, yet accessible to all. Art is my “church”: a place to capture,

reconcile, celebrate & tether the spirit of my experience with the world. And it’s the

fused energies of pigmented wax and abstraction that give language to ideas, feelings and

connections that have not yet found words…..