Dominique Gustin
Contemporary Digital Collage and Encaustic Paintings
Dominique Gustin is a multi-disciplinary artist working across photography, digital and mixed media, encaustic painting, poetry, contemporary collage, video, and sound. She created SomnMigratory Studio to share her contemporary digital collage and encaustic paintings. Dominique studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been making art and working in the arts for over thirty years. She lives in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Her work is rooted in the surrealist collage tradition — assembling photographs, ephemera, and found imagery into new narratives that reimagine the possible. Drawing on the symbolic storytelling of magical realism, her pieces carry a playful or contemplative touch, made luminous through encaustic beeswax, damar tree resin, and colored pigment.
Her ongoing Bird Saint series — miniature encaustic paintings, each dedicated to a Vermont bird — continues alongside new work exploring other imaginary themes.
Callimorpha & Miella
St. Archilochus colubris
(Ruby-throated Hummingbird)
Close-up of St. Tyto alba (Barn OwL)
Clocking in at the Nap Fishery:
Stocking the Cool Waters Along Lake Morey
Rain visited Eleanor's Garden
