Shannon Borg
Friday Harbor, WA
Shannon Borg is an oil painter who creates colorful, large-format abstract landscapes inspired by the shorelines of the islands where she lives.
MessageShannon Borg is an oil painter and printmaker living in the San Juan Islands. She has studied at Gage Academy of Art and at the Trowbridge Atelier in Seattle. She is a poet and writer with an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington, and a PhD in Creative Writing/Poetry and English Literature from the University of Houston. She has published three books: Corset, a book of poems; Chefs on the Farm: Recipes & Inspiration from the Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts, and The Green Vine: A Guide to West Coast Organic, Biodynamic and Sustainable Wines.
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Artist’s Statement
My paintings and prints capture landscapes that are part imagined, part real.
I wander the beaches of the San Juan Islands with my camera, framing the geology and flora, the flotsam and jetsam the sea tosses in. I study the ways people interact with the landscape— driftwood shelters, firepits, shrines and cairns—and how light interacts with what has been built. Then I draw and paint with charcoal, ink and oils to capture their abstract strangeness.
A driftwood-scattered beach is a forest of symbols scattered, like bones tossed, runes to be read, dark thresholds taking us into to dream worlds.
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