Jaimie Ladysh: Ephemeral Expressions
Dates: June 12 – August 2, 2025
Location: The Arts Center Main Gallery and Bradfield Gallery of Fine Art
Ephemeral Expressions is an exhibit that portrays visual poetry of nature. It contains pieces of artwork that range in time from 2021-2025. The majority of work is archival hand-applied color on photographs; but there are a small number of Encaustic pieces.
About the Artist
JAIMIE LADYSH is an American lens based interdisciplinary artist, currently based in Texas. She explores different themes but the ideas embody our connection to the natural world with a nostalgic appeal to a place. She is drawn to tranquil calm moments. Presently exploring digital with edited and some composited images, she prints the images on various archival papers, then further manipulates with layering hand-applied color, painting, drawing, and sometimes encaustics to create visual poetry. The results are often described as ethereal.
Jaimie has a long use photography of traditional film, silver gelatin, and other alternative processes. As a fine art major, she began exploring hand tinting, coloring, and painting of photographs with oils, pencils, and water based media while at the university. She used film 35 mm, 2 1/4 x 21/4, and toy cameras.
Her work is archival; made with materials for longevity. She has been in many galleries, press, and venues. Pieces are in private, public, and corporate collections.
Artist Statement
My grandmother would tell me stories about the painting as she was working and I watched mesmerized. More magic happened when I got my first Brownie camera at about ten. My interest developed further when I studied fine art at Ohio State University and then University of Montana. I studied all types of art but was continuously drawn to photography and painting, and I began to put the two together with hand-applied color on silver gelatin photographs.
With an inclination to Romanticism and the Picturesque, I explore elements of the natural world. Each piece is an aesthetic journey through discovery. Leaning toward moody landscape images and images with water, I am also reaching for images that appear timeless. When I find a space that speaks to my soul I begin with photographs. After editing and printing an image, my hand-work begins. I apply layers of color through a variety of media, but often use oil pencils, oil sticks or paint, stick and pan pastels, pencil, and encaustics to achieve a poetic interpretation.