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BethAnne Lutz is an internationally awarded photographic artist and encaustic painter inspired by her love of nature and the ever-changing beauty of the natural world. She lives in the Unami Creek Valley near Green Lane, Pennsylvania, surrounded by woods and a landscape she has created and nurtured as an avid gardener. Her gardens and two koi ponds are a constant source of inspiration, offering an ever-changing mix of color, texture, light, and life that naturally finds its way into her art.
Today, Lutz is focusing more of her creative energy on encaustic painting. Working with wax, pigments, and fire, she builds her paintings layer by layer, using a torch to fuse the wax and reveal what lies beneath. She scrapes, moves, and reshapes the surface as each piece evolves, creating luminous layers filled with color, texture, and depth. For Lutz, encaustic is less about recreating nature and more about capturing the feeling of being surrounded by it.
Photography remains an important and active part of her work. Using digital layering techniques, she transforms photographs of flowers, meadows, trees, and woodlands into vibrant, textured dreamscapes that blend reality and imagination. Her photographic work has received international awards and continues to be exhibited and sold.
Lutz earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, specializing in photography and metalsmithing. After graduating, she created a successful line of nature-inspired sterling silver and gemstone jewelry that was sold in galleries throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Her love of nature, photography, and making things by hand has remained at the heart of her creative journey and continues to shape both her encaustic and photographic work.