Irmgard Geul
Pauls Valley, OK
Observing my daily surroundings are what encourage me to create - to render the invisible visible
Message
The mixed-media works of international artist Irmgard Geul are best viewed as contemporary landscapes on paper and canvas. She creates scenes that come to life with embroidery, a stitch and loose thread, thrown and stitched on the acrylic painting. Each layer tells a story adding texture and depth to the landscape. The fusion of thread and paint brings a tactile dimension to the scenery, capturing light and movement.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Irmgard grew up in the small town of Blaricum, south of Amsterdam. She completed her studies in art at HKU University of the Srts in Utrecht and worked across sector in fashion design and visual communication. Twenty plus years ago she came to Oklahoma to pursue a career working with horses, and in retirement, has found her way back to the art.
her mixed media work is constantly evolving in the urge to map her memories and to tell her stories of her adventures around the world and about rural Oklahoma, where she has an art studio on her old horse ranch, her home since arriving from the Netherlands in 2003.
Her work has been featured in Textile Plus, Curbside Chronicle, The Norman Transcript, Art Focus Oklahoma, Oklahoma Today, Artsy Dhark, and on OETA/Gallery America. Irmgard Geul’s artwork has been in group and solo exhibitions in galleries throughout the U.S. and Internationally. She has private and corporate collectors around the world.
Statement
Through trusting my intuition to guide me, I follow the flowing stream of my most intense emotions, gathering inspiration along the way from the bank of my collection of memories as the source and raw materials for creating my mixed media paintings.
My most recent work I like to be known as “Embroidery Paintings” or “ Acrylic on Canvas with Thread”, a self explored technique where I apply embroidery and loose thread and stitching over acrylic paintings on paper and canvas to create depth and a visual perspective.
Although I still have an continuous love for abstraction, for now I have been challenging myself in creating the stories and adventures on and around my daily surroundings.