Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

Artist, Author, Instructor, Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch has a passion for inspiring others. Her love for the medium of encaustic translates into her teaching, and students benefit from a passionate, engaging experience filled with all the knowledge Patricia has acquired and developed in her foraging into this rich and diverse medium over the past three decades. This work spans five continents, five highly successful books, and inspirations on live on Insight Timer, recordings on YouTube, and regular blog posts at Before the Brush.

In 2010 she created EncaustiCamp, an annual week-long encaustic retreat for artists at all levels of practice in the medium. This retreat is held annually the last week in July, on the shores of the Puget Sound outside of Seattle, Washington and attended by artists from throughout the world.

Since 2015, with a move back to the states from her two year teaching abroad in Australia, New Zealand and Bali, Patricia purchased and began renovations on an 1880 castle in Lexington, Kentucky. The EncaustiCastle compound as it’s come to be known, hosts artists studios, Artist-in-Residency opportunities, and regularly scheduled group retreats.

Patricia exhibits her work in encaustic and oil painting in galleries throughout the world.

For a long forever I have felt things preexistent. Not in the grand sense, although that too. I mean in the sense that elements, materials, tools have all been at hand, used by others, and reused by us. By me.

Yet I also believe, in the grand sense and in this materiality sense, that these preexisting things are never repeated, always new, because of the hand that holds them.

I believe that when one stands in the river-flow of one’s unique life, that whatever comes to be in one’s hand; a paint brush, a dentist’s tool, an electrician’s meter, that the river-flow will say what it is meant to say, purely because that person is standing where they’re meant to stand.

You have your own way of looking at things; I have mine. We can share, to the depth of our being from our own view, but never can we replicate with any truth and spirit, each other’s horizon.

In this, is the why of why I teach; to bring us each to the truest place of our own self, and from there look out across each others horizon.

In this, is the why of why I paint; to bring others to the wonder of seeing with new eyes.