Biography

Growing up in the shadow of the Cascades, the beauty of the Pacific Northwest inspired my love of nature and wildlife. Trips to the mountains have supplied a stunning and endless backdrop for my wildlife subjects which I have been painting for over 40 years.

I attended the Art Institute of Seattle where I graduated with honors with a degree in Visual Communications. I went on to produce art for magazines, newspapers and television, but my background in the fine arts and my desire to paint animals called me back to doing what I have always loved. My style is colorful and visually fun to look at. The colors flow and dance across the picture. I have a style that is unique and different.

My work has been seen in galleries from Seattle to New York. My wildlife art designs have sold on shirts and tote bags in Alaska, and many of the lower 48 states.

Experience

At present selling my art through my own website

 Geme Art  Vancouver. WA published and marketed a dozen paintings

 Polar Graphics/Arctic Circle……Alaskan Wildlife themes on shirts, tote bags etc. Company based in Kent Wash, Parent Company in AlaskaCards of Wood/Lost Mt. Edition Bellmont,MI pen and ink drawings of wildlife and scenery

Thomas/Hoe,Wide Wilderness Series Portland OR Wild life art printed for stationery

Sound Printing,Seattle,WA.Pen and ink of animals for paper line of stationery,napkins,cards etc.

 Wildlife Illustrations  for other SPORTSWEAR  companies       Latitudes, Portland, OR 
Prairie Mountain Lockwood, MO
Shirts Plus of Aitkin,Inc., Aitkin, MN
Lesal West,Inc., Las Vegas, NV
Great Graphics, Dover, DE

BOOK COVERS, MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS
Creative Solutions,
Seattle, WA
Cats Magazine,
Port Orange, FL
Horse Illustrated, Mission Viejo, CA
Parents Without Partners,
Regional Distr.

ADVERTISING Illustrations for Direct Mail Newspaper,and Television

PMA Pro-Mail Associates,Seattle, WA
Ballard Bratsberg,Inc.,
Seattle
Wight’s Garden & Floral,
Lynnwood, WA
Heirloom Floral Art,
Seattle, WA

 

Shows

 One man shows:

Rhoeder House, Bellingham

Challenger Ridge Winery

Seattle shows in the 80s and 90s

Group Shows and juried shows:

Fairhaven Art market, Bellingham

Ski to Sea Art Show, Bellingham

Art Depot, Anacortes, WA

Art of Snohomish Juried Art Show

Solovei Gallery, Everett, Wa

Pickle Barn Tulip Festival (award given)

Seattle Center House

Burien Art Gallery

Seahurst Art Gallery

Puyallup State Fair (award won)

Art at the Port Anacortes

Anacortes street fair 70-80s

Evergreen State fair (award given)

Super Mall Auburn

Kent Art Group and shows

Duncan Art Gallery

Kent Meeker Days

Renton River Days

Many miscellaneous shows in the 60-80s in the
Northern Pacific region from Lynnwood to Blaine