Victoria Wetsch Studio

Victoria Wetsch Art Studio

Exhibitions & Demonstrations 2025 – 2026

Yellowstone Art Museum Annual 58th Annual Art Auction – Juried Selection of Encaustic Art Work: Harmony Trail – Exhibition Opens Feb 6 & The Night, Gala & Auction: March 7, 2026 – Billings, MT

Water Works Art Museum Annual Juried Art Exhibition Whispers of Color Selection: Gathering Leaves, Encaustic; Harmony, Encaustic; Sunset, Oil Opening: Jan 30, 2026 – Mar 12, 2026

Carbon County Depot Gallery – The Art of Birding – Exhibition and Sale – Red Lodge, MT Jan 10 – Feb 28

Galleries

Carbon County Depot Gallery Red Lodge, Montana

Cody Arts Gallery Cody, Wyoming

Frame Hut & Gallery Billings, Montana

Idaho Art Gallery Meridian, Idaho

Museum of Encaustic Art Cerrillos, New Mexico

Waterworks Museum Gift Shop Miles City, MT

Encaustic Artistry

Encaustic is a medium developed by the ancient Greeks in Egypt and used by artists for centuries into our present art world. Victoria formulates the oil-based medium with specific proportions of purified beeswax and natural fossilized resin. Each unique artwork is created with a variety of suspended textures, images and color pigments which are fused into many translucent layers. The final painting cures and hardens into an ever-enduring work of art while preserving a stratum of visual depth. For the viewer, Victoria’s encaustic paintings display a story of unique images with lustrous and sculptural interest. It is with intuitive abstraction that she finds direction and purpose in creating one-of-a-kind Encaustic works of art.

Victoria Wetsch is a multidisciplinary artist, using a variety of mediums & techniques including encaustic, printmaking & painting with an emphasis in oil mediums. Victoria’s appreciation for continuing education directed her to achieve an honorary degree in Interior Design in Portland, Oregon and a Fine Arts and History degree from the University of Northern Colorado. She began her professional career as a commercial interior designer while developing a visual merchandising and display company as her business expanded to include a full-service floral business earning design awards in Oregon competitions. In Montana, Victoria established the Billings Gallery of Fine Art in the historic Babcock Building where she represented Montana local and regional artists and cultivated her love for creating fine art.

Victoria has been juried into national and international competitions. She has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the western region including several national museums. Victoria was awarded a Professional Development Grant from the Montana Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. Her art works have been juried into the Yellowstone Art Museum and the Missoula Art Museum annual auctions, the Waterworks Art Museum in Miles City and the Museum of Encaustic Art in Cerrillos, New Mexico where several of her works remain in their permanent collection.

Born and raised in Montana, Victoria currently resides in the eastern region of the state where vast plains and mountains meet. In her Montana studio, Victoria’s dedication to the arts continues with a focus on the process of creation, its endless possibilities and visual adventures. “My purpose to create art is inspired by Montana’s outstanding beauty composed of its diverse wildlife, expansive landscapes and unmeasurable skies.”