Artist Spotlight: Stephanie Roberts-Camello
Stephanie Roberts-Camello is a Massachusetts based artist working primarily with encaustic and mixed-media. Stephanie graduated with a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985. She has attended multiple residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, where she continued to develop her encaustic relief technique. Stephanie is currently President of New England Wax and exhibits throughout the country Her work was recently featured in a two person show at the Duxbury Art Complex Museum, as well as a three person show at the Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery in Fall River. She was also invited to show at an exhibition by Jane Cornish Smith at the University Gallery at Texas A&M Commerce.
Stephanie was introduced to encaustic during a workshop around 1996 with Tracy Spadafora. After the class she purchased a heat gun, a start up line of encaustic paint, and an 12" x 12" R&F Heated Palette she still uses today.
"I found painting with encaustic to be challenging initially but also fascinating and I continued to experiment, adding various materials above and below the surface, including R&F Pigment Sticks®. My encaustic relief work began after my first year attending the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown where I was able to take workshops and was exposed to so many different ways of working with this material."
