These works lean towards more about the movement of the pigment and the manipulation of the suspended pigment atop the paper. Responding to colour and the medium itself!

It’s about not making that perfect mark too soon in the painting, making the background translucent to feature that perfect mark... I like to refer to artwork painted with natural Inks and Watercolour as “living works of art.” Translating places into pigments, into works of art that hold a place within them!

A select few collector comments about Linnea's artwork.

This work will be in the 2023 Calgary Stampede in the Western Oasis Mini Gallery. Go check it out!!!

Work created in the momentum of Covid., and the series continues on...where everyone needs a support system behind them, or something that supports your being by re-energizing yourself! Not necessarily re-energizing yourself in the scene to run a marathon but to just keep going on. Sometimes it's that tiniest pebble but it's your pebble, there for you.

This traditional medium of watercolour on a nontraditional watercolour sub-straights gives these watercolours a contemporary feel. Watercolour doesn't necessarily come to mind when we think about contemporary art, Linnea challenges this perception. As Linnea works on a number of paintings at one time, this encourages her to work swiftly and directly, shifting between works, sometimes to linger and work intensely, and at other times moving rapidly.

“My work is a response to the edges of landscape, the meeting of land and the vibrations within, where mass meets fluids, and earth holds movements” Revealing translucent layers with a soft dreamlike quality to the edges of the work.

·Finished with an archival protective layer- no framing behind glass required.

Seismic Happenings | Inner Self

I ponder what is happening down below the surface we walk on.
I ponder how vibrations happen and how these vibrations start!
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I ponder what vibrations we create as an individual?
I ponder what an individuals reverberation is within ones self.

Do your create good vibrations within yourself and for the land and people your vibrations effect?

My work is in the form of Modern Landscapes and snapshot details of nature. Using Canada’s vast mountains and never ending prairie to give me inspiration; “Love for the unspoken words of nature.”

It has been said that Linnea's "Mountain paintings are so cleverly laconic "

My intention, to spark personal recollections in the viewer from an unconventional perspective, moving pigments that are suspended, extracting pigments, manipulating the smallest pigments creating layers of transparent colour, playing on depth with slight transitions to add complexity and mystery within the surface, leaving a translucent history. I see these layers as a metaphor for life; the pigmented puddles are the quiet moments of rest, absorbing over time, the layers we create from memories, dreams and reflections. Some unseen solid layers and some layers seeing right through to the first brush stroke.
I do not want to recreate an exact replica of mountains but using strong, bold and unexpected colours, using the shadows, the highlights of snow and creases within the mountains creating a representation, a feel and essence of a mountain. Something similar to the mountains when their beauty has touched your soul!

The Mountains have music if you listen to them... Linnea’s work is in the form of Contemporary Landscapes, snapshot details of nature. Exploring unseen ideas of seismic and the grandiose power of the Mountains. Studying the formations, snow patterns and tones of the mountains leads Linnea on her journey of painting. She uses the attributes of Watercolour, boldness of colour and the play on depth with slight transitions of colours to add complexity and depth within the surface of her paintings, using layers upon layers to add complexity within the surface of her paintings to create a translucent history, creating an illusion of deep perspective; stirring a memory or an emotion for the viewer.

These Print Editions are prints of Linnea Martina's original watercolours. Prints made available in canvas prints and a selection of archival paper prints. Currently there is a good selection of prints available at Chinook Centre, Calgary at Market Spot. Plus a selection of cards available at the Leighton Centre Gift Shop, Millarville, AB . Enquire with Linnea on where specific pieces are located.

“Ripple Effect” Water – Space – Time – Energy I was first inspired to create Ripple Effect Series by watching a water drop hitting the surface of a calm body of water. Slow motion watching water drip Nature breathing out through space and time
 it lands
 
 then a ripple... In a glass of liquid
 in a puddle
 a pond a lake the ocean I breathe in... and out again I contemplated the ripple and its effect. Reflecting on space, time, relationships, interactions between people and energy. There is a ripple everywhere. Sometimes we can see it and other times we feel it. There is energy bouncing around and between objects. It vibrates around us, between us and through us. It is the relationship we have with, and to, each other. It ripples through business and personal relationships and through our spirit and souls. It makes us cling to each other and move away from each other. As the ripples expand they encompass and include us all. Ripple Effect is an expression of how we connect through: Energy Space Time Ripple Vibrations What’s your Ripple effect?

Linnea works in several different mediums. She uses the attributes of Watercolour and Encaustic to add complexity within the surface of her paintings to create an illusion of movement; stirring a memory or an emotion for the viewer. Growing up in Calgary and having a cottage in Invermere the 3 hour travel time winding through Alberta’s vast mountains and summer tumbling around in nature is what grew Linnea’s love for nature’s beauty and bases her artwork on this; a constant eye of seeing;” Love for the unspoken words of nature”.

My work is driven on the ancient and re-emerging medium of encaustic; beeswax and resin, worked in a molten state with the added pigments of oil paint. My work is in the form of abstract landscapes and snapshot details of nature, exploring ideas of reflection, vibrations, movement and ideas of seismic. I don't necessarily always ponder what is happening above ground but happenings below! Reflecting on space, time, relationships, interactions between people and energy. My intention, to spark personal recollections in the viewer from an unconventional perspective, carefully building layers leaving a translucent history, (obsession with layers!) using depth of colour, luminescence, sculptural textures and surface transitions, transitions of slight sodalities. Though the fluvial and sculptural qualities of wax, I navigate memory. The complexity of this process takes me on a journey each and every time I paint, the adding and subtracting of the wax revealing layers that have pre excited and the conscious decisions of leaving layers un touched, and some built up for sculpture aspects. The multi layering of wax I see it as a metaphor for life; the conjunction between nature and the layers we create from memories, dreams and reflections. The melting wax challenges real and perceived boundaries present in life and proves that our imaginations and intuition alter the stagnation or fluidity of all boundaries. This work will change every time you study it. The dance with the molten wax back and forth embarks me on a journey to the mystery of the 'not knowing'. While working I keep myself in a fluid balance between meditation and examination until a satisfying equilibrium is reached. Not knowing when the piece is done until it is worked and reworked when that journey is complete. The hands-on labor and the intensive process leaves me with pieces that have many layers of mystery and metaphor, with my aim to create a calm core within disarray, leading the eye through a multi layering journey of great depths, stirring that reflection or emotion for the viewer.

This traditional medium of watercolour on a nontraditional watercolour sub-straights gives these watercolours a contemporary feel. Watercolour doesn't necessarily come to mind when we think about contemporary art, Linnea challenges this perception. As Linnea works on a number of paintings at one time, this encourages her to work swiftly and directly, shifting between works, sometimes to linger and work intensely, and at other times moving rapidly.

“My work is a response to the edges of landscape, the meeting of land and the vibrations within, where mass meets fluids, and earth holds movements” Revealing translucent layers with a soft dreamlike quality to the edges of the work.

·Finished with an archival protective layer- no framing behind glass required.

Contact Linnea to discuss what your vision is for her creative hands to create for you. She can work with any budget in mind...

Watercolour on Canvas:
This traditional medium of watercolour on a nontraditional sub-straight for the medium gives these watercolours a contemporary feel. The watercolours interaction with the canvas leaves the artist with a constant challenge of getting the colours down before there is too many layers and the watercolour rebels by reversing the painting action by pulling colour off of the canvas!
·Finished with an archival protective layer- no framing behind glass required.

Linnea works the canvas revealing translucent layers with a soft dreamlike quality to the edges of the work. Exactly where your state of mind should be when dreaming about mountains and their vastness and wonder.

Traditional Watercolour on highest quality art papers:
Linnea works again revealing translucent layers with sharp edges and definition of tones and shapes within the subject. Linnea then changes the movement of the traditional watercolour and transforms it to contemporary with an unconventional change in her colour pallets that she uses, strong bold colours that hold emotion deep within the soul; deep in the stone that defines these vast mountain ranges, flowing water that surrounds them.
·Framing behind glass required for longevity and preservation.

My work consists of, but not all containing, found objects, image transfers, layer upon layer of wax, the inscribing and carving of the wax itself. The dance with the molten wax back and forth embarks me on a journey to the mystery of the 'not knowing'. While working I keep myself in a fluid balance between meditation and examination until a satisfying equilibrium is reached. Not knowing when the piece is done until it is worked and reworked when that journey is complete. The hands-on labor and the intensive process leaves me with pieces that have many layers of mystery and metaphor, with my aim to create a calm core within disarray.

These works have a watercolour created first and then the encaustic over top. The majority of Linnea’s art is in the ancient and re-emerging medium of Encaustic; beeswax, resin and oil paint pigment worked in a molten state. The flow and substance of encaustics, the glow and translucence of suspended pigment continue to intrigue her. The physical process that is required from encaustic is much a part of Linnea’s work as the end result. Linnea’s work is in the form of abstract landscapes and snapshots of details in nature. Carefully building layers of depth with slight sodalities. Influenced with encaustic artists like Alicia Tormay’s incredible use of shellac burns and Robin Luciano’s translucent paintings, both using nature to inspire and transpire encaustic into amazing works of art. Natures unseen vibrations and energy bring Linnea to her canvas. She doesn’t necessarily always ponder what is happening above ground but below, seismic happenings! Reflecting on space, time, relationships, interactions between people and energy. Linnea’s intention is to spark personal recollections in the viewer from a unconventional perspective using colour, sculptural textures and surface transitions….Carefully building layers of depth with transitions of slight sodalities this work will change every time you study it. Linnea’s work has been selected to be on a cover of a local Art Newspaper, can be seen at shows like Art Calgary, selected for group shows and has a constant showing a juried group shows.

With the chaos of Covid-19 I found myself stuck to the couch in a trance...one recovering from a toe surgery and one in a state that I needed to know what was transforming. In this time I found comfort in mindlessly drawing lines in my sketchbook, keeping my hands busy, going back to the basics of embroidery. With doing this the embroidery lead to more textiles. I love to weave and started to create textile works, created out of the comfort of memory...swings and tress. This work represents the inner twisted complexity of nature
with a simplistic yet tedious outcome. Keeping my hands busy while still is just me. “Love for the unspoken words of nature.”
That and the comfort I get from creating is what inspires me.

 Linnea’s work is in the form of landscapes and snapshots details of nature, exploring ideas of memory of nature, vibrations, movement and ideas of unseen vibrations and energy.  Linnea's work carefully builds layers upon layers, building depth with slight transitions of slight sodalities, her work upon these layers adds complexity within the space to create a textural history, illusion of depth; stirring a memory or an emotion for the viewer.

Linnea’s work is in the form of abstract landscapes and snapshots of details of nature. Carefully building layers of depth with transitions of slight sodalities this work will change every time you study it. Her work consists of, but not all containing, a watercolor painting, found objects, image transfers, layer upon layer of wax, the inscribing and carving of the wax itself. The dance with the molten wax back and forth embarks Linnea on a journey to the mystery of the 'not knowing'. While working I keep herself in a fluid balance between meditation and examination until a satisfying equilibrium is reached. Not knowing when the piece is done until it is worked and reworked when that journey is complete. The hands-on labor and the intensive process leaves Linnea with pieces that have many layers of mystery and metaphor, with my aim to create a calm core within disarray.