User:Yates9/Frances Lansing

Frances Lansing (New York, 1945) is an American born Tuscan based artist working in Encaustic Painting and Bronze Sculpture. Her landscapes have been shown in New York

A recent retrospective of her work was held at the Museo Valtellinese and at Palazzo Sertoli in Sondrio. This exhibit included paintings, ceramic work and bronze sculpture from 1989 to 2005. Since 1989, her preferred painting technique is encaustic involving the use of bees’ wax as medium for large colorful landscapes painted on wooden panels.

She is a member of the “Etruscans” a group of Tuscan artists interested in ancient art forms and centered around Philippe Daverio.

Her earliest works were etchings, made at the Santa Reparata Studio in Florence, but she has used many mediums including photography, drawing, pastels, oil, clay, wax and bronze. A recent retrospective of her work was held at the Museo Valtellinese and at Palazzo Sertoli in Sondrio. This exhibit included paintings, ceramic work and bronze sculpture from 1989 to 2005. Since 1989, her preferred painting technique is encaustic involving the use of bees’ wax as medium for large colorful landscapes painted on wooden panels. Her brother is the American Sculptor, Yates Lansing.

Her husband, the artist Sheppard Craige, created the Bosco della Ragnaia, an extraordinary garden and park in the town of San Giovanni d’Asso. A series of small bronze sculptures for that park is an on-going project. Currently she lives with her husband on a farm in the Crete Senese. For many years she taught at Siracuse University and Kent State University in Florence as well as Giardino dei Ciliegi, a Florentine feminist cultural organization.

Photographs of etching, Merton, landscape, and bronze