Irmgard Geul
Pauls Valley, OK
Observing my daily surroundings are what encourage me to create - to render the invisible visible
MessageBorn and raised in The Netherlands, Irmgard Geul received her art degree at the HKU University of the Arts in Utrecht/The Netherlands.
Her work is constantly evolving in the urge to map her memories and to tell her stories. Geul grew up in a small rural town South of Amsterdam in a large family of seven brothers and one sister.
Her abstract paintings are best viewed as colorful aerial maps, a bird's eye view of her internal creative explorations, scanning the tracts of the landscape below.
In her new mixed media collages, she applies fabric and embroidery into her work in honor of her mothers, her primary motivator in pursuing her dream to become a full-time artist.
Irmgard is a published and an award winning artist. She had several solo, collaboration, group and online exhibitions in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, French and The Netherlands. A solo exhibition of her most recent artwork will be held at the Oklahoma State Capitol - North Gallery will be held from January 19 - April 10, 2023
She currently has her art studio on a horse ranch in Pauls Valley, OK and has an audience of devoted private and corporate collectors throughout the United States, in The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Colombia and Australia.
Most recently, Irmgard Geul her work was televised on OETA Gallery America an artist special for PBS. Her work has been published in and on the cover of the Curbside Chronicle (2019, 2020), Art Focus (2018) and in Wild Lands, a book published by Jen Tough Gallery (September 2021)
Irmgard’s artwork is represented by The Vault Gallery in Pauls Valley, OK
Statement
My most recent work I like to be known as “Embroidery Paintings” a self explored technique where I apply embroidery and stitching over acrylic paintings on paper, to create depth and a visual perspective. Although I still have a continuous love for abstracts for now I have been challenging myself in creating the stories and adventures on and around my daily surroundings in rural Oklahoma.
Each artwork is composed of a gestural acrylic under-painting on heavy colored poster board, paired with the craft of embroidery. With perforating the paper with my needle I am not only bleeding the color of the paper into the embroidery but also create an extra dimension to the subject.
The mix of these two materials speaks of contradictions, simplicity and complexity. In the finished work, multiple tensions arise between the spontaneous and the intentional, the gestural and the static, the flat and dimensional, the linear embroidery and the soft perforated lines of my subject.
© 2023 Irmgard Geul
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