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What do werewolves and 16th century oil paintings have in common? Silver is a precious metal that has been used in art around the world for thousands of years. Along with its distinctive shine, it has long been believed to have magical and healing properties. Learn more about Silver on our blog: jacksonsart.com/blog/2025/01/02/the-use-of-silver-in-art/?utm_campaign=pigment_stories_silver&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_shorts_to_blog
Filmed by the Jackson's Team in the Jackson's Studio. This film features @evie_hatch, Studio and Materials Specialist at Jackson’s Art Supplies.
What do werewolves and 16th century oil paintings have in common? Silver is a precious metal that has been used in art around the world for thousands of years. Along with its distinctive shine, it has long been believed to have magical and healing properties. Learn more about Silver on our blog: jacksonsart.com/blog/2025/01/02/the-use-of-silver-in-art/?utm_campaign=pigment_stories_silver&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_shorts_to_blog
Filmed by the Jackson's Team in the Jackson's Studio. This film features @evie_hatch, Studio and Materials Specialist at Jackson’s Art Supplies.






![“Encaustic painting is a really fascinating medium with a rich history.” – Dietlind Vander Schaaf
Dietlind Vander Schaaf is an artist from Maine, USA, who uses encaustic to create abstract paintings inspired by the fluidity of water and the topography of the Earth – elements that feed into ideas about inner landscapes, and the interplay between concealing and revealing. She visited us in the Jackson’s Studio to discuss how her art and yoga practices are entwined through meditation and self-reflection, the influence of her background in writing, and her role as one of the core artists representing R&F Handmade Paints.
0:00 “There are times where I feel like I gave too much away and I needed to pull back.”
0:30 Introduction
0:51 “So much about being an artist is spending these long periods of time alone.”
1:40 “There weren’t any artists in my immediate family who made me think, ‘Oh, I want to be an artist.’”
2:30 “I just started playing around with my own ideas.”
3:11 “I would wander the city and just look – this act of looking is really critical to being an artist.”
4:02 “The painting had such a poetic quality to it, and I just couldn’t move away from it. I fell madly in love with it.”
5:33 “I was trying to understand why I didn’t feel prepared to deal with loss.”
7:51 “How can I make work that speaks to those experiences, but in a way that also celebrates the incredible beauty of that?”
8:29 “I found this 23-karat gold leaf from Italy; it’s expensive, it’s delicate, there are lots of reasons not to use it…there’s just nothing like working with real gold.”
9:33 “I wanted to have as little as possible in the work, while still having it hold together.”
11:18 “Both practising yoga and teaching yoga relate to my art making.”
12:42 “It was all about helping them to tell their own story.”
13:52 “This is everything I dislike about abstract art…I got obsessed with it.”
15:54 “Encaustic painting is a really fascinating medium with a super rich history.”
16:41 “I found colour super overstimulating in the beginning.”
18:19 “Colour mixing directly on the palette has an immediacy that I really like.”
20:27 “I often let an encaustic painting get really wild before I come back in and quiet it.”
24:25 “I describe it [encaustic painting] as a moving meditation because there’s this rhythm and cadence to applying a layer of medium.”
25:21 “I know sometimes for artists the blank canvas can be a little daunting, but that’s never really been an issue for me, I think partly because I am very process orientated.”
27:55 “There are several Japanese aesthetics that are really interesting to me.”
28:45 “Everything has to go through that kind of awkward teenage phase.”
30:01 “My studio is very peaceful and beautiful.”
31:15 “I’ve been working with R&F Handmade Paints for about 8 years now.”
32:57 “I can’t live without my potter’s needle.”
34:27 “That painting told me to have faith in myself as an artist.”
36:18 “Vision is always ahead of execution.
36:44 “Do you feel like it’s resolved or is there something in it that still needs to be addressed?”
37:44 “I do believe that things have evolved and unfolded as they should, so even though it often felt like there were these very desperate parts of my life, they all kind of fed into me arriving where I am today.”
38:42 Credits
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