Personal
Born Arendal, Norway
Resides Seattle, Washington
Education
1999 BFA, cum laude, Cornish College of the Arts
1993 Art history study in Europe, Art History Abroad
1992 AA Interior Design, Art Institute of Seattle
Exhibitions
2018 West Seattle Art Walk, Viscon Cellars
2017 Beach Orcas on Parade, Richmond Beach Public Art
2017 Small Works Show, Gallery North, Edmonds
2016 Small Works Show, Parklane Gallery, Kirkland
2016 6x6NW, Shoreline Arts Council, Shoreline
2016 Arts of the Terrace, Juried Show, Mountlake Terrace
2016 Fremont Art Walk, Saturn Building, Seattle
2016 Julia's of Wallingford, Seattle
2015 Seattle Sampling Artist studio tour
2015 S.O.S. II - Summer Open Studio, Seattle
2015 Julia's of Wallingford, Seattle
2014 McMenamin's Anderson School, Bothell (permanent collection)
2014 Holiday Art Sale, Pratt, Seattle
2014 S.O.S. - Summer Open Studio, Seattle
2014 Pets on Parade, Schack Art Center, Everett
2013 Central Pizza, Seattle
2013 Julia's of Wallingford, Seattle
2013 Historic Maloney's, Skykomish
2013 Sodo Pop, Seattle
2013 Alchemy of Attunement at Horse Harmonics, Bow, WA
2009 Lynnwood Convention Center
2009 Juried Art Show, Edmonds Arts Festival
2009 Edmonds Art Walk, Coldwell-Banker Bain
2008 Olympia Art Walk, Bandaloop Brothers
2002 Artist’s Gallery of Seattle
2000 Open Studio Tour, ActivSpace, Seattle
1999 BFA Show, Fisher Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
1998 Group Show, John McKinney Gallery, Bellingham
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Overall in my paintings, my interest lays mainly in form, whatever my subject matter. Color is very important to me as well, largely intuitive, related often to mood or energy.
I spent more than a year concentrating solely on horses as my subject of focus due to my lifelong love and fascination with these animals.
I am currently enjoying experimenting with portraiture and a wide variety of subject matter – travel, nature, memories, even stories told to me by my daughter.
Appreciating both abstraction and figuratism, I often find myself combining both in a single painting as well as incorporating graphite within the confines of the oil painting or oil bar with acrylics. I enjoy experiencing the contrast of paint's fluidity and the precision of drawing and often find them quite compatible. I've also started employing encaustics which is fabulous fun!!
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Another artistic adventure is illustrating a children’s book…have a look at www.blackberricat.com or http://introducingblackberri.blogspot.com or go straight to www.blurb.com and look for "Blackberri's Bacon Cookies"...be warned, you may be tempted by many other fun books on the site as well .