Bio

Elisabeth Winnen is a Portland based artist, designer and educator with over 20 years experience in drawing, painting, arts education, architectural and digital design.

In 2012 she began a series, Unesco World Heritage Site paintings, based on her travels to ancient architectural sites. The images she creates intertwine architectural plans, mural paintings and sculptures. This landed her her first exhibit in downtown Portland.

She draws, inks with technical pens and paints with water colors and acrylics on large sheets of water color paper. Additionally she began a digital art series based on her favorite Dutch painter and a Greek muse and was juried in the Muse exhibit in Bend, Oregon. As a certified Soul Art facilitator, she leads workshops in the U.S. including in Hawaii.

Winnen is originally from the Netherlands where she earned her art and art history teaching degree and traveled Europe extensively before completing her Masters in architecture in Arizona.

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Artist Statement

My art transports me to ancient people and places. It allows me to travel through time and learn about world cultures, art, architecture and myths. The depth of abstraction and connection to the immediate environment, flora, fauna and the larger universe draw me in.
As a teenager I experienced first hand the power of place at Chartres Cathedral, with it’s magnificent light quality and stonework. 

My artwork is a celebration of ancient art, architecture, mythology and the interaction with nature and the human body.

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