Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Belief #5, 2000

Wendy Franklund Miller
(American, born 1943)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Belief #5 is a mixed media painting by artist Wendy Franklund Miller. It is an encaustic artwork, which combines melted beeswax with colored pigment, painted onto a surface in layers. This colorful and energetic composition features imagery of circles, ovals, wing forms, and images of a fawn. Many of the artist’s artworks explore natural systems and search for balance.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Vancouver School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Spokane-based artist Wendy Franklund Miller creates art using a variety of materials and techniques, including artist-made papers, encaustic paintings (made using melted wax), printmaking, and ink drawings. Her artworks explore a visual language of forms and symbols and is "mostly focused on discarded objects with all their implications for our civilization."
Franklund Miller was born in North Dakota and raised in Yakima, Central Washington. After art school and college, she settled in Spokane, Eastern Washington, where she has lived and worked since 1976.