Ginnie Cappaert is a full time visual artist with a studio/gallery in Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her surroundings of nature and her travels inspire and influence her oil/mixed media paintings on paper or wood panel.Ginnie continues to enjoy an intense studying of art history and just ‘experimenting’ that have broadened her personal techniques to art making. She works in oil and mixed media layering, adding and removing, many layers to each piece. It is this in-depth process that allows subtle markings and layers to emerge into the finished painting which is an abstracted minimalist version of a landscape.Peace. Serenity. Joy. Is what she would like to accomplish in her painting. Art is made from the soul. Cappaert feels that a day is not complete without something ‘artfully’ done! It is the landscape imagery and its deep space that she explores in her work by building up 30-40 layers of oil paints and mixed mediums. She applies very thin layers of oil paint to the wood board adding texture, scraping the paint, dissolving areas and then rebuilding them as she constructs the painting. The removing process is as important as the layering. This ‘surface tension’ eventually is transformed into a peaceful, subtle mix of texture and natural colors. Cappaert strives to accomplish a feeling of serenity not only as she paints, but for the viewer as well. She continue to find that balance between landscape and abstraction. Her local surroundings as well as distant trips continue to inspire her artwork. You may see an influence of her travels to Italy, France Portugal, Spain, New Zealand and Ireland as well as her winter time spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico and her summers in Door County, Wisconsin. Skies, vast lands, colors and the light also inspire Cappaert and she is thankful for the beauty around her and the ability to transform it into art.