The poetry of Olivia Pendergast’s figurative work emerges with great subtlety. You feel its charm and sweetness at the same time as its force; not an aggressive, invasive, obvious force, but one of those forces which start from the bottom of the soul and can overturn worlds.Olivia Pendergast completed her BFA at Columbus College’s five year Art and Design program and began exhibiting her work in 1999. After five years as conceptual designer in the film industry in Los Angeles, Pendergast retired to the mountains of Utah to paint full time, away from the world and its artificial temptations. In 2007, she moved to Seattle to invest more in her artistic activity before discovering Africa the following year. After visiting several times, Pendergast made the move to Africa in 2008.Traveling with her daughter, this self-claimed world citizen calls herself both an artist and a full-time mother. A renowned artist with multiple distinctions since 1999, Olivia Pendergast has exhibited on three continents (America, Asia, Africa) and in thirty gallery exhibitions, with equal success. Her works are in several important collections, including that of the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta. Let us enter her universe, which claims to be the only dimension of man, take hold of her share of humanism which she generously offers us, and take away this piece of soft light that she spreads through our souls. Olivia Pendergast from Natasha Sweeney on Vimeo.