Joya Paul is a mixed media artist and is primarily self-taught with some formal training in encaustic which she has explored over the last three years. Joya's latest work combines photographic imagery, collage, oil paints, pastels and encaustic to create haunting landscapes and dream like imagery. Her work begins by taking various images from a collection of her own photographs, re-arranging them, adding colour, text or handwritten notes.

For her encaustic recipe, she uses a mixture of beeswax and microcrystalline (petroleum based wax) and adds oil paints to the melted wax to create the paint. The encaustic paint is applied over the photographic image, creating texture, depth and transforms the image to give it an ethereal and luminous quality.  Joya’s work has been displayed in many private collections throughout North America.