Sadhana Cook
I am an artistic creator of many things. I have always had a passion to portray what I experience in an appropriate medium and this has included acrylic, encaustic and alcohol ink painting, traditional and experimental quilting, delicate arts such as cross-stitch and stump-work and earthy natural arts like gemstone jewellery, natural wool spinning and dyeing.
I particularly focus on the colours and textures of Australia’s natural environment, and I am deeply concerned by the growing climatic threats in our world. I have adventured widely to many varied and remote parts of our country and experienced the vastness, depth and wonder of these environments.
In recent years I have discovered and been entranced by the ancient but now revived medium of artistic expression through beeswax. This is Encaustic Art in which wax, resin, pigments and shellac are combined and fused to create many different and exciting artistic effects and outcomes. The use of Alcohol Inks is also included in the media I now employ, giving even more movement, vibrancy and powerful contrasts in the outcomes produced.
“I love finding the abstract form hidden in the beauty of the natural world then expressing this in encaustic. I find delight in the idiosyncrasies of this medium where the merging of beeswax, resin, pigment and shellac constantly surprise and amaze me”.
All of my art and craft is inspired by my experiences while travelling to all corners of Australia and overseas.
“It does not matter where I have been. It does not matter who I knew. It does not matter what I did. If I could show you all the gems I gathered along the journey, it would take another lifetime.”
After ten years living in Tasmania and developing two large permaculture gardens with my husband, I recently moved back to the Bendigo area where I have spent many earlier years. | 
