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ADALÉI is a Raleigh-based creative studio working in encaustic, fiber, and textile. I'm not a painter. I'm not a seamstress. I'm a material artist who moves fluidly across wax, fiber, fabric, and photography because the medium serves the ideas.

The Practice

Wax, fiber, and fabric - combined using techniques both old and new into my own creative voice.

The Studio

Designed, made, and sourced as close to home as the material allows. Raleigh, NC.

The Work

Encaustic art and studio textiles. Built slowly. Limited quantities. Intentional design.

Alpaca and wool boucle pillow in a neutral tone, inspiration for the "Remaining Light" encaustic art piece

Alpaca Boucle Pillow

Alpaca and wool boucle, woven in Belgium. The texture and depth of this fabric was the starting point for Remaining Light - the encaustic work it's paired with.

Close-up of encaustic painting showing rich layered wax, pigment, and resin texture on a wood panel

The Art of Creating with Fire

The ancient technique of fusing dry pigment, dammar (damar) resin, and wax to wood - worked with blowtorch, hot metal tools, and heat gun to melt and build layers of color and texture. A modern interpretation of encaustic painting .

Small 8x8 encaustic art study on birch board in ocher and burnt umber tones

Petite Studies

Petite Studies are 8×8 encaustic works on birch panel. Pigment, wax, and heat — built in layers. Each one is a study in movement and surface.

Ocher and Burnt Umber Study No. 1.

Zipper detail of Chocolate Holly Hunt Wool and Shearling Pillow Cover.

Pairings

Encaustic work and studio textile, conceived in the same studio from the same palette. Each pairing is made to live together in a space — not coordinated, but connected during design.

Contact the Studio

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