<p>Patricia Clark-Finley pictured in her artist studio on Orcas Island, Wash.</p>

SEASIDE Fairweather House and Garden will reveal artwork by Patricia Clark-Finley in a solo show with an artist reception 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 29. The artist will be in attendance to greet art patrons and showing her latest work in abstraction and encaustic art.

Encaustic painting also known as hot wax painting first piqued Clark-Finleys interest when she saw a show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was also attracted to its cultural history and the organic qualities of beeswax. Encaustic art is not damaged by light. It can be buffed with a soft cloth, so cleaning is not an issue.

With encaustic, I might achieve the textural depth and complexity I enjoy in abstract expressionism, with the incised precision of dry point line from etching, the artist says. I find the jewel-like colors of encaustic too seductive to resist, so I just go with that. I use the most intense pigments I can find and mix that with resin and natural beeswax.

Viewers will find issues of migration, movement and constant change in her art. My own nomadic wandering is both intellectual and also physical, as my studio location and my reading list seems to change every few years, Clark-Finley said. The birds which populate my images seem to echo this freedom of wandering. Most recently, the broad expanse of abstraction and light are inspired by the weather watching I do from my studio windows.

My work interprets a shimmer of rustling breezes, of rocky shores and craggy islands that support their forests in shifting patterns of shadow and light. Objects drop away, leaving optic remnants of transparency, light and color.

Clark-Finley studied at the University of Washington and University of California, Berkeley and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. She launched her first solo exhibition in San Francisco in 1991 and was included in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Gallery.

She also creates the labels and brand identity for Mount Baker Vineyards, the winery she and her husband, Randy Finley, have made into a well-established player in the Northwest wine industry.

In addition to original art works the artist is producing limited edition signed prints for the 2013 show, which will last a long time and have the texture and luminosity of fine art. Clark-Finley has done a lot of printmaking and has great admiration and fascination for archaic printing methods and the rhythm and focus of printmaking. She has sold etchings, monotypes and mixed-media pieces.

Fairweather House and Garden is located at 612 Broadway in Seaside. For more information visit www.fairweatherhouseandgarden.com