Irmgard Geul is a Netherlands-born, USA/Oklahoma-based mixed-media artist creating contemporary landscapes that merge acrylic painting with embroidery and loose thread. A graduate of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, where she majored in public art, Geul worked across the art sector in fashion design, visual communication, and the equine industry. Strongly influenced by her mother’s haute couture career, Geul’s tactile works explore light, movement, and the organic rhythms of nature through layered surfaces of paint and fiber on paper and canvas.

Career highlights include her 2021 artist special on PBS/OETA/Gallery America. In 2023, her solo exhibition The Long Way Home was featured at the Oklahoma State Capitol. In 2025, her work was showcased in the dual exhibition Across Spaces at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and her participation in the biennial group exhibition ArtNow, Materials and Bounderies at the Oklahoma Contemporary, curated by Alexa Goetzinger.

ARTIST 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 paintings.

My most recent work I like to be known as embroidery paintings 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.