BAAA November Program - Karen Eide, Mixed Media Illustrator

Karen Eide is a mixed-media illustrator and painter whose work centers on animals, wildlife, and the

quiet poetry of the natural world. She maintains a studio at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville,

VA where she both paints and teaches.

For more than 20 years, she has worked in the ancient art of encaustic painting, a medium dating back

to the 5th century BCE. Encaustic involves melting pigmented beeswax on a heated surface and

applying it to rigid panels with brushes, producing luminous, layered works with a distinct, often

ethereal quality. The medium is remarkably versatile and can be used as a stand-alone medium or as a

complement to oil painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, watercolor, and other disciplines.

Since 2005, she has been teaching her Encaustic Painting and Mixed Media Lab workshop for the

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, independently, and other art centers and schools

throughout Virginia.

Nov 7, 2025, 9:30am

Bon Air Christian Church

2071 Buford Road

North Chesterfield, VA 23235