Wendi Schneider

A visual artist currently working in photography and precious metals to illuminate vanishing beauty in our vulnerable environment. Inspired by a background in painting and art history, I create impressions of what I feel more than see, layering the images with color and texture to manipulate the boundaries between the real and the imagined. Printed on translucent papers, gold leaf is applied behind the images creating a luminous surface. My process infuses the artist's hand and suffuses the treasured subjects with the implied spirituality of the gold, insuring each print is a unique object of reverence.