Amanda Jolley’s career path as an accountant compelled her to search for greater meaning in life. After leaving corporate accounting in the mid 1990s, she began exploration in mixed media and found great satisfaction in collage whether on canvas, in her soldered jewelry, or in her altered books and art journals. Drawn to the depth and luminous characteristics of wax, her creative journey settled in and found home with encaustic painting. Since her introduction to the world of encaustic, she has been experimenting with form and texture, often incorporating her collage elements and origami structures into the wax. Her marriage of encaustic paint and soldering is featured in Encaustic Revelation by Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch. She is also published in A World of Artist Journal Pages curated by Dawn Devries Sokol, and Cloth, Paper, Scissors. She regularly shows her paintings at the KCAC Gallery and with other exhibits across the nation. Amanda has a passion for sharing the healing properties of art with a distinct segment of the Kansas City population, exploited women, and spends much of her time planning projects to promote healing, in addition to teaching encaustic, soldering, and art journaling classes in the Kansas City area.