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CARA HINES
MIXED MEDIA | ENCAUSTIC

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ARTIST STATEMENT
"I am an evolving amalgam of artist, designer, wordsmith, and mischief-maker. As artist, I'm an abstractionist working in encaustic, mixed media, assemblage, and site installation. My process is a psychosocial exploration traversing the dark and sometimes grotesque, always reaching for the higher perspectives of expansion, beauty, and redemption. My work is more about combining materials in cohesive expression of inner-contextual impulses, & less about specificity of material. I’m drawn to forms and materials with raw, natural qualities & those suggesting imperfection, impermanence, and past life: aged paper, reclaimed doors, lumber, textiles, wire, old house paint, found objects. With these, I employ a number of artist media—encaustic, graphite, soft pastel, oil pastel, ink, acrylics, oils, spray paint. To view my art is to engage with my process. To own a piece is to connect and integrate it into your life. These are points of relating between us, and I thank you, the viewer, for showing up."

— Cara Hines


ARTIST BIO
Cara Hines is an expressive abstract artist best known for her extemporaneous work in encaustic, mixed media, and site installation, as well as her penchant for working with eyes closed. In her previous life, she was an interior designer who mixed sleek contemporary with reclamations in a sophisticated layering of materials, color, and texture. She has also been known to capture photographic images and write articles, stories, and poems, some of which make their way into her art.

Ms. Hines started life as a precocious, barefoot artist in the small West Texas town of Childress, the daughter of a farmer/rancher and a teacher. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Interior Design, and worked in the profession for more than 15 years. Her shift from designer back to artist was born of a desire to be less exacting and more spontaneous, as well as a deep, primal longing to explore the existential nature of emotions inexpressible through language alone.

Cara currently splits her time between Comfort TX, Abilene TX, and Northern Virginia, with her partner, Ernest, and their Australian Shepherd, Ginger. She works from various studios located in her home, Studio Comfort, Virginia, and occasionally her 1966 Shasta travel trailer.
  • Cara Hines, Evolutionary Shenanigans, Encaustic
    EVOLUTIONARY SHENANIGANS
  • Cara Hines, If You Don't Like Where the Door Leads Make a New One, Encaustic
    IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHERE THE DOOR LEADS, MAKE A NEW ONE
  • Cara Hines, Encaustic Study, Encaustic
    ENCAUSTIC STUDY
  • Cara Hines, Back to Comfort, Encaustic
    BACK TO COMFORT 8x8
  • Cara Hines, Emergence, Encaustic
    EMERGENCE 8x8
  • Cara Hines, Nothing, Encaustic
    NOTHING
  • Cara Hines, Receptive Mode, Encaustic
    RECEPTIVE MODE
  • Cara Hines, Substance Abduced, Encaustic
    SUBSTANCE ABDUCED
  • Cara Hines, The Deep, Encaustic
    THE DEEP
  • Cara Hines, Under the Bridge, Encaustic
    UNDER THE BRIDGE

STUDIO COMFORT TEXAS  an artist studio gallery


ADDRESS

Studio Comfort Texas
716 High Street
Comfort, TX  78013

Mailing address:
PO Box 887
Comfort, TX  78013
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JANUARY 2021
  FRI:  11a - 4p
  SAT:  11a - 4p
  SUN:  12p - 4p
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Other days and times by appointment, please email or call Cara or Jeannette

We request that you wear a mask and be respectful when you visit. Please consider our staff and our family members who may be at a higher risk.
CONTACT

e  info@studiocomforttexas.com 
p  830-995-3750 
c  210-386-8078  
c  720-299-0302 
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  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Art in the time of COVID-19
    • Visit Comfort
    • Blog
  • Classes
    • CLASS CALENDAR
    • Meet Our Instructors
    • Draw+Paint Scotland 2021
    • Draw+Paint France 2021
    • Cancellation & Refund Policies
  • ARTISTS
    • Submissions-Current SCTX Artists
    • New Artist Inquiries
  • Exhibits+Events
    • Deeply Rooted
    • Curious Cuttings & Rebellious Rhizomes
    • April Dressed In All Its Trim
    • Walter Salas-Humara
    • Pauly Tamez
  • SHOP
    • ART >
      • SHOP: DEEPLY ROOTED
      • SHOP: APRIL DRESSED IN ALL ITS TRIM
      • SHOP: PAULY TAMEZ
      • SHOP: REX FOSTER JEWELRY
      • SHOP: WALTER SALAS-HUMARA
    • ART SUPPLIES
    • BLACKWING
    • BOOKS
    • GIFT CERTIFICATES