Color Memories, an exhibit by artist Ginnie Cappaert is on display in the DEO gallery through the months of December and January.

Ginnie Cappaert is a fulltime visual artist with a studio/gallery in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin.  Her surroundings and love of nature inspire and influence her oil, mixed media paintings that she has become known for.  She lived in the beautiful Upper Peninsula for thirty years before moving to Door County to open an art gallery.

Cappaert’s study of art history and experimentation of the oil medium has broadened her personal techniques to art making.  She uses cold wax medium to mix with oil paints creating a more spreadable and textured paint that she can extensively layer.  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 from her memory that is open for interpretation by the viewer.

Ginnie owns her own gallery, Cappaert Contemporary Gallery and is represented by six galleries across the country.  She is represented in Santa Fe where she spends part of her winter.  She continually strives to find a balance in her work between abstraction and landscape.

“In my painting, I am often interested in exploring horizontal bands or shapes of color to represent emotion and energy and their relationship to each other and to the landscape in an abstract manner.  Color is my focus.  Always color.”

“My abstracted minimalist landscape paintings are intuitive and playful, often developed through the extensive layers of oil, cold wax and marble dust.  I draw from the landscapes that I travel to and the landscapes that surround me in my daily life.  The layers are built up slowly and include texture, mark making, scraping and dissolving to subtly create depth, interest and curiosity within the painting.

In my most recent works and the works for, “Color Memories”, I am exploring the use of color, either neutrals and monochromes or vibrant and intense colors exactly like nature and the change of the seasons.”