Graul Chair in Arts and Languages
Sights and Sounds of Nature
with Beth Guipe Hall
Encaustic is an ancient medium for painting made by combining beeswax, damar resin, pigment and heat. Indianapolis artist Beth Guipe Hall uses encaustic as paint and as a natural adhesive for creating what she calls, encaustic collage. She composes colorful artworks using digital imagery, vintage ephemera, graphite, metal leaf and imported hand-made papers, all sealed between successive layers of natural and pigmented beeswax. Each layer of the work must be fused with heat to the previous layer to ensure the integrity of the surface. After the piece has cooled, it can be polished to a glowing sheen allowing the depth between translucent layers of wax to be revealed.
Beth’s work explores themes of personal growth, the passages of life, and the drive for self-determination.
Hall maintains a studio at the Harrison Center for the Arts in Indianapolis. Her work has been shown at the New York Affordable Art Fair, Aqua Art Miami, the Seoul Art Fair and Art Hamptons. Her work is in private collections in South Africa, Iran, England, Australia and the United States. She is honored to have her work included in Indiana corporate collections of the Eli Lilly Foundation, Smith and Amundsen, Renaissance, The Whitt, Southeastern REMC and Joy’s House.