Indigo Free b. Petrolia, CA
Lives and works on Orcas Island, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Cloudberry, Must Gallery, Orcas Island WA
2023 Silent Place, S&S Cornershop, South Hampton NY
2025 The Roaring Bell, Houlme, Orcas WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 OPEM, S&S Cornershop, South Hamptom NY
2024 75 Artists, 110 Works, The Stable Gallery, Woodstock NY
2025 Dream Juice, Paragon Art Gallery, Portland OR

Residencies
2017 Residency in the Garden, Portland OR
2021 Doe Bay, Orcas Island WA

  

                                                                                                                                           

   

 SOME THOUGHTS ON PAINTING:

    Painting is how I interpret and organize memories. I am very interested in exploring somatic memory, dreams, and the subconsious. This significantly informs my art practice. When I paint,  I try to hold an open, neutral, welcoming mind. Ideas float in, similar to a meditation practice, observing what comes and goes. I find that halfway through a painting I begin to understand it's context. I realize I've recreated something familiar, unknowingly.  A scene from childhood or a forgotten place. This is my way of connecting to both the transcendent and mundane. Looking back as a way of connecting to a viewer, sharing the uncanny.

All pieces are hand-built, stretched, and framed. I like being involved in the practical steps of creating an object as a balance and conclusion to the diaphanous dreamstate.