Wax Anatomical Human Heart by Heather O'Shaughnessy
This anatomically correct and live-sized human heart cast in beeswax, hand painted in oil paint and mounted on a wooden abase was ceated by wax artist Heather O'Shaughnessy from an original sculpture. This heart looks smart under a glass dome or on a shelf in your Cabinet of Curiosity.
Heather O’Shaughnessy is an American artist currently residing in Saint Louis Missouri. She works across disciplines as a wax sculptor, illustrator and ceramic artist. She works primarily in wax, porcelain, and gypsum and actively participates in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by the lost art of wax portraiture in miniature, she developed her process with wax through trial and error, as few references to the details of technique have survived. This endeavor involves sculpting, mold making, casting, carving and painting. Her wax pieces often include wax dipped laces, gold leaf and rich velvets encased under convex glass, a nod to sacred reliquary. Her work is an exploration of a mystical world that exists just beyond the veil. “I am endlessly intrigued by themes of the miraculous depicted in devotional paintings. Spiritual visitations, otherworldly communications through energy beams and misty apparitions - interpreting the metaphysical, supernatural and imponderable through sculpture, giving them a physical form in wax is my greatest delight.”
Heather teaches wax and porcelain focused workshops and releases collections of miniature sculptures in limited edition.
This anatomically correct and live-sized human heart cast in beeswax, hand painted in oil paint and mounted on a wooden abase was ceated by wax artist Heather O'Shaughnessy from an original sculpture. This heart looks smart under a glass dome or on a shelf in your Cabinet of Curiosity.
Heather O’Shaughnessy is an American artist currently residing in Saint Louis Missouri. She works across disciplines as a wax sculptor, illustrator and ceramic artist. She works primarily in wax, porcelain, and gypsum and actively participates in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by the lost art of wax portraiture in miniature, she developed her process with wax through trial and error, as few references to the details of technique have survived. This endeavor involves sculpting, mold making, casting, carving and painting. Her wax pieces often include wax dipped laces, gold leaf and rich velvets encased under convex glass, a nod to sacred reliquary. Her work is an exploration of a mystical world that exists just beyond the veil. “I am endlessly intrigued by themes of the miraculous depicted in devotional paintings. Spiritual visitations, otherworldly communications through energy beams and misty apparitions - interpreting the metaphysical, supernatural and imponderable through sculpture, giving them a physical form in wax is my greatest delight.”
Heather teaches wax and porcelain focused workshops and releases collections of miniature sculptures in limited edition.
This anatomically correct and live-sized human heart cast in beeswax, hand painted in oil paint and mounted on a wooden abase was ceated by wax artist Heather O'Shaughnessy from an original sculpture. This heart looks smart under a glass dome or on a shelf in your Cabinet of Curiosity.
Heather O’Shaughnessy is an American artist currently residing in Saint Louis Missouri. She works across disciplines as a wax sculptor, illustrator and ceramic artist. She works primarily in wax, porcelain, and gypsum and actively participates in exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by the lost art of wax portraiture in miniature, she developed her process with wax through trial and error, as few references to the details of technique have survived. This endeavor involves sculpting, mold making, casting, carving and painting. Her wax pieces often include wax dipped laces, gold leaf and rich velvets encased under convex glass, a nod to sacred reliquary. Her work is an exploration of a mystical world that exists just beyond the veil. “I am endlessly intrigued by themes of the miraculous depicted in devotional paintings. Spiritual visitations, otherworldly communications through energy beams and misty apparitions - interpreting the metaphysical, supernatural and imponderable through sculpture, giving them a physical form in wax is my greatest delight.”
Heather teaches wax and porcelain focused workshops and releases collections of miniature sculptures in limited edition.