Artist Ingrid Christensen - Oceanside Art Gallery

Ingrid Christensen is, first and foremost, a painter of light. Her work is an ongoing exploration of light’s ability to elevate even the most mundane object into the glowing subject of a painting. Christensen focuses on still life and figurative genres, painting from life whenever possible, but knowing that all paintings are, ultimately, the work of memory. In the time it takes to make a painting, flowers fade and models leave. What’s left is the impression that the artist has of the original scene, stripped of detail – a distillation of the subject.    Read More