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Studio Reset (Kim Kobialko) is a full-time encaustic artist working out of her rural home studio on the Kapiti Coast. Her work is ethereal contemporary and with a nostalgic quality.

Taking total creative control and keeping sustainability as one of her key focuses, Kim works through the time consuming process from scratch; harvesting wax from her beehives, making encaustic medium and then painting with it on up-cycled or re-purposed substrates.

Her artwork is a result of combining three passions together to create a full circle in her creative processes; beekeeping, photography and encaustic painting. Studio Reset starts with a found substrate, usually an old tray or wooden platter to create nature-inspired compositions with depth, translucency and environmental meaning. She assembles her imagery by layering portions of photographs with ink, pigment and building up the layers between many fine sheets of beeswax.