Rutland High School Alumni
Rutland, Vermont (VT)
Gay Schempp
Rutland High School
Class of 1964
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GAY'S PROFILE
First Name | Gay |
Last Name | Schempp |
Graduation Year | Class of 1964 |
Gender | Female |
Current Location | Winsted, Connecticut |
Hometown | Norwalk, Connecticut |
Relationship Status | Married |
About Me | I've been an artist all my adult life. Here's what I am doing now: I have been exploring encaustic collage over the past three years. I work in a variety of media and in this work I am incorporating my love for drawing, painting, collaging and composing visual stories. I am using a painterly approach to combine drawings, pieces of found images, photographs and textured papers in a narrative style. The encaustic wax medium allows me to work in layers, trapping fragments of color, memory and message in time. The content of my imagery expresses a life-long fascination with mythology, symbols and the cultures of ancient civilizations. Travel, History, Music, Spirituality and the exploration of personal Mythology are the inspirations for my images. I begin with a pigmented wax painting to seal the substrata. Layers of collage materials, including ephemera gathered in travel or papers I have painted are composed between wax layers and fused into the surface of the developing piece. For the final layer, I use xeroxed copies of my sketches or photographs and burnish the ink into the surface of the waxed collage, dissolving the paper to leave the image imbedded in the wax. This process allows me to create the illusion of depth and mystery as images fl...(read more) |
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