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    Encaustic Art. Studio Textiles. Raleigh, NC.

    The Practice

    Wax, fiber, and fabric - combined using techniques both old and new into my own creative voice.

    The Studio

    Designed, made, and sourced as close to home as the material allows. Raleigh, NC.

    The Work

    Encaustic art and studio textiles. Built slowly. Limited quantities. Nothing repeated.

    ADALÉI is a Raleigh-based creative studio working in encaustic, fiber, and textile. I'm not a painter. I'm not a seamstress. I'm a material artist who moves fluidly across wax, fiber, fabric, and photography because the medium serves the ideas — and whose studio also produces extraordinary textiles.

    Alpaca and wool boucle pillow in a neutral tone, inspiration for the "Remaining Light" encaustic art piece

    Alpaca Boucle Pillow

    Alpaca and wool boucle, woven in Belgium. The texture and depth of this fabric was the starting point for Remaining Light - the encaustic work it's paired with.

    Close-up of encaustic painting showing rich layered wax, pigment, and resin texture on a wood panel

    The Art of Creating with Fire

    The ancient technique of fusing dry pigment, dammar resin, and wax to wood - worked with blowtorch, hot metal tools, and heat gun to melt and build layers of color and texture. A modern interpretation of encaustic painting .

    Small 8x8 encaustic art study on birch board in ocher and burnt umber tones

    Petite Studies

    Petite Studies are 8×8 encaustic works on birch panel. Pigment, wax, and heat — built in layers. Each one is a study in movement and surface.

    Ocher and Burnt Umber Study No. 1.

    Multi-colored luxury pillow from the ADALÉI Pillow Collection, paired with encaustic art

    Pairings

    Encaustic work and studio textile, conceived in the same studio from the same palette. Each pairing is made to live together in a space — not coordinated, but connected at the origin.

    Contact the Studio

    Tell us what brings you to the studio. We respond within two business days.