Jamie Scheppers
Multi-Media Artist
Jamie Scheppers finds joy in exploring color and texture across multiple mediums. Her paintings are primarily encaustic, though she enjoys exploring other mediums and techniques in hopes of finding new ways to express a sense of carefree and incite curiosity. Though her work may span mediums, she hopes that the playfulness of her bright colors will unite her pieces and help others find ways to be more child-like in their daily lives.
To say Jamie is self-taught would be a stretch. Though she does not have any formal art training, she has taken a few workshops and online courses, and is continually learning from other artists. Her first experience with encaustic was at a one-day workshop taught in 2016 by Elise Rugalo at Orr Street Studios in Columbia, MO. She also has closely followed Alicia Tormey and has honed her skills by following along with her online courses.
More recently, since encaustic can be a time-consuming and expensive medium to work in, she began making watercolor doodles to scratch the art itch. For Christmas 2020, she decided to turn some of those doodles into necklaces. And thus began her dive into selling watercolor jewelry.
Now, Jamie splits her time between those two primary mediums, but don’t be surprised if her creative explorations lead her work to evolve into new areas!
She has exhibited her work at The Columbia Art League (Honorable Mention), The Kansas City Stockyards Gallery, Creations573, and Dogmaster Distillery, and has participated in Columbia, MO’s Fall Into Art. She is a member of The Columbia Art League, and the Shop 1-in-5 Initiative and Columbia’s CRE[8] Makers Community.
