Ingrid Whitaker
I have created art all my life and have always been interested in more realistic and natural forms and images. While I admire more abstract works, I have never been drawn to create them and have instead worked from nature and from the world I see around me. I like to paint people and to also create from the natural world.
Having lived in other countries, I also enjoy painting the landscapes and cityscapes of wherever I find myself. While my husband was working in Europe, I was living with him there in a small apartment. To keep busy, I found myself painting the scenes of the everyday life that I saw around me.
Thus, “The Far Distant Alps” a large painting, is the view from a little town in Switzerland where across a large lake the majestic Alps sometimes showed their face. (More often than not, the view was swathed in fog or mist). This painting shows that glorious moment when the mountains started to reveal themselves.
People are also endlessly fascinating to me and I try to capture their expressions in paint. My other works show my need to delineate faces in paint so as to reveal the underlying emotion of each person.
I prefer to use oil paint on smooth surfaces for the flexibility of the paint and its long manipulation time. Thus, my work tends to be detailed and complex.
I have created art all my life and have always been interested in more realistic and natural forms and images. While I admire more abstract works, I have never been drawn to create them and have instead worked from nature and from the world I see around me. I like to paint people and to also create from the natural world.
Having lived in other countries, I also enjoy painting the landscapes and cityscapes of wherever I find myself. While my husband was working in Europe, I was living with him there in a small apartment. To keep busy, I found myself painting the scenes of the everyday life that I saw around me.
Thus, “The Far Distant Alps” a large painting, is the view from a little town in Switzerland where across a large lake the majestic Alps sometimes showed their face. (More often than not, the view was swathed in fog or mist). This painting shows that glorious moment when the mountains started to reveal themselves.
People are also endlessly fascinating to me and I try to capture their expressions in paint. My other works show my need to delineate faces in paint so as to reveal the underlying emotion of each person.
I prefer to use oil paint on smooth surfaces for the flexibility of the paint and its long manipulation time. Thus, my work tends to be detailed and complex.
$65.00
Acrylic and birchbark on aluminum panel.
9.50x9.50x0.70"
The work is slightly three-dimensional as the painted birchbark creates the texture and sense of jutting out from the frame.
$90.00
Acrylic and birchbark on a pine panel.
10x8x1"
This piece uses painting and a collage of birchbark to create the texture and feel of wood. It is not completely flat but slightly three-dimensional
$95.00
Acrylic and birchbark on panel.
12x9x1"
This piece uses birchbark to create texture and three-dimensionality. The moss on the bark is original to it and is still alive as long as it has oxygen, as it takes water from the air. Thus the artwork is in reality a creation that is still living.
$85.00
Acrylic and birchbark on panel.
12x9x1"
The natural striations of the birchbark are part of the painting. While mostly flat there is a slight three-dimensionality to the work.
$85.00
Acrylic on birchbark.
10.50x8.50x0.70"
This painting is created using birchbark as the board not canvas. The background striations are the natural form of the bark and add to the unique nature of the work.
$60.00
Acrylic and birchbark on board.
10x9x1.50"
The piece uses birchbark to create texture. It is slightly three-dimensional as the collaged birchbark is not completely flat.
