Artist Bio Ginnie Cappaert is a fulltime visual artist with a studio/gallery in Door County, Wisconsin and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her surroundings of nature and travels inspire and influence the oil, cold wax, mixed media paintings that she has become known for. She feels compelled to interpret the landscape that surrounds her in an abstract, intuitive and playful manner. Ginnie Cappaert pulls color, texture and abstract forms from the environments that surround her to inform her paintings. Her deeply worked and layered surfaces describe emotional connections to place and space, taking the notion of ‘landscape’ into a realm that is both magical and familiar. She uses cold wax medium to mix with oil paints creating a more spreadable and textured paint that she can extensively layer, add and remove or unearth to expose ‘history’ within the painting. It is this in-depth process that allows subtle marking and layers to emerge into the finished painting which is an abstracted minimalist version of a landscape. The process includes a lot of exploration from deep within and is a constant push-pull with color and texture. Some may call Ginnie a ‘colorist’ as she naturally explores and emphasizes the color relationships pulled from nature and her imagination. She is creating a sense of place that is open for interpretation by the viewer. Ginnie owns her own gallery, Cappaert Contemporary Gallery, Door County, Wisconsin and co-owns Materiality, Santa Fe, New Mexico and is represented by seven galleries across the country. She continually strives to find a balance in her work between abstraction and the landscape.