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Sam Colt is a Vermont-based artist working primarily with grassello di calce, a traditional Italian lime-and-marble plaster known for its luminous depth and stone-like presence. Raised in rural Vermont and trained in classical European decorative techniques in Boston and New York City, her work is shaped by a lifelong sense of restless longing for the origin of attention and beauty,

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After years designing large-scale decorative finishes for commercial spaces in NYC, Colt opened a full-time studio in Montpelier, Vermont in 2016. Her process involves building smooth, glowing surfaces layered out of grassello, marmorino, oxidizing iron, burlap, and gold-leaf and then carving into these surfaces rhythmically to create or reveal images through intentional destruction. 

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Through the visual tension developed between what is constructed on purpose and what is generated through accelerated erosion the paintings explore the intent versus the disorienting loss of self inherent in any pilgrimage.

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