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Lonnie Zarem is a professional fine artist with a focus on making Encaustic Monotypes. Following art school, and several years of oil painting, she started to paint with Encaustic Wax, a medium consisting of beeswax, resin, and pigment. This means creating an image by painting with blocks of pigmented wax on a hot flat plate, and then placing rice paper on it to absorb the melted wax image, and then pulling it off for a one time print. For the last 15 years, Lonnie has been pushing the possibilities of making contemporary encaustic monotypes; developing new methods, stretching and modifying wax application, working large scale, incorporating varied drawing approaches, and exploring color to achieve her highly expressive representational abstract monotypes.

Lonnie currently lives and works in her studio in Los Altos Hills, California. She was born in Southern California where she grew up playing tennis with the intention of turning professional. This led to her recruitment to UC Irvine where she graduated with a B.A. in economics. After years working as a marketing professional, she married Hal Zarem and had three sons. The family moved to Northern California in 2000, at which time Lonnie decided to formally pursue her art career. This led to art school at San Jose State University, School of Fine Arts and the many years of making, showing, and selling her work as well as being an art instructor for the last 8 years. She enjoys family, friends, and an active life filled with the wonder, beauty, nature’s wildness, and the quest for new adventures!