Sir Andrew Davis has served as music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2000 and will continue in that role until the 2020-2021 season. Maestro Davis also conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and is also conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conductor laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and former music director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Sir Andrew Davis’ mask comes with two autographed CD’s, "Delius" and "York Bowen Symphonies Nos 1 & 2," which he has graciously donated. The York Bowen recording was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Mask Designed by Lisa Bick

Due to a shared love for music between Sir Andrew Davis, and artist Lisa Bick, she chose a score written for the violin by Beethoven's hand. She printed the score on a thin piece of silk and wrapped the mask with it. She found it lovely when the hot beeswax encompassed it but she wanted to use an iridescent bronze wax in lines to imitate the slurs drawn into the music and suggest a note around the signature. The mask is also hand rubbed with a pigment stick of the color of night and marked with a cross of batons. Encaustic is done on flat panel, traditionally, so manipulating the wax into curves is a bit problematical.

As an encaustic artist, Lisa Bick typically employs various mixed mediums into her work which is always highly personal and tends to depict not only layers and mysteries of wax but her own. She is entranced by what is between the layers, hidden beneath the layers and what is given to the viewer to interpret. The mystery of art and life drives her to continue her explorations into the process of encaustic painting and creative practice.

For more information about this mask or artist, email lisa@lisabick.com or visit lisabick.com.