Rebecca Stahr's paintings are the inner landscapes to her imagination.  Her art is born out of a larger contemplative practice rooted in experiencing the sacred connectedness in our natural world, the beauty of impermanence and the cycles of life and nature. 

Rebecca's studio is a sacred space for her.  A place where exploration and play become holy acts in a conversation.  Mixing the paint, layering, mark-making and scraping away is meditative, a type of prayer ritual.

Her recent paintings merge an interest in process and the encaustic medium with an organic, dimensional approach to developing a composition.  Images that seem to reference nature are the accumulation of thousands of smaller points of pigmented wax applied in layers.  The work seems to simultaneously form and dissolve, speaking to the mutable and atomically fractured nature of our physical environment.  With a technique that recalls the repetitive creation of weaving and textiles, these interior landscapes can be read both as surface and image.