Artist Bio
Jamie Gray is a Denver-based mixed-media artist known for her nature-inspired wall sculptures, installations, and shaped encaustic panels. She has gallery representation at Walker Fine Art, Denver.

Gray has exhibited in galleries and festivals in the US and UK and has artwork placed in residential, healthcare, hospitality, and corporate collections in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, and UAE. London’s Royal Academy of Arts and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned her to make wearable art collections for their museum shops. 

Denver exhibitions in 2025 include “Art of the State” at Arvada Center Galleries; in 2024, “Gossamer” at Walker Fine Art, “Oscillations” at SeeSaw Gallery, “The Texture of Time” at ArtGym, “Seed” and “TrueWest” at BRDG Projects; and in 2023, “40th Annual All Colorado Show” at Curtis Center, “Big Draw Colorado” at Arvada Center, Winter Art Market at RedLine Contemporary, and a solo show titled “High Desert Homecoming” at Bell Projects.

Gray holds a BFA and MFA in design and previously taught as an Assistant Professor of Design at Kansas City Art Institute with a pedagogical focus on theory and fundamentals.

Artist Statement
Nature and memory. Materiality and formalism. 

First, my art practice starts with closely observing natural elements, especially drawing inspiration from Colorado’s western plains and high desert landscape where I grew up. Over my lifetime, I have collected visual memories, such as the textures in bark, grasses, lichen, mushrooms, and the silhouettes of trees, canyons, boulders, and streams. Memories blend and distort over time, and my wall sculptures and installations are an amalgamation of these recollections. 

My art practice is guided by my choice of materials and preference for hand-made processes. I utilize wood and encaustic wax, a blend of beeswax, pigments, and natural tree resin. I approach the shaping and construction of my wood substrates like a free-form drawing, and I love working with the wax’s organic and palpable properties. These connect me to my father, a fine woodworker, and my grandfather, a beekeeper. I enjoy transforming materials sourced from nature into artworks that pay tribute to it.

Finally, my art practice is rooted in my love of formalism. I translate the natural forms and textures I collected over time through a modern lens of minimalism and abstraction, simplifying my memories into an elemental visual language. I use subtle color, organic shapes, and repetitive mark-making to evoke an essence of nature and ultimately express the feelings I associate with spending time outdoors, such as calmness, balance, and groundedness.