Award winning and professional oil painter artist, Ingrid Christensen, was born and raised in Golden, a small town in British Columbia, Canada. She studied art and English at UBC in Vancouver and received an Education degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and, for a time, taught in the public school system. But art was always Ingrid's primary passion, and she quit teaching in order to pursue it wholeheartedly.

Dinah Worman（American, b.1950） Back to the Barn oil on canvas via

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Cian McLoughlin (Irish, b. 1977, Dublin, Ireland) - Shouting Man from Tronie Drawings: Chalk on Paper

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California-based artist Kai Samuels-Davis layers linear paint strokes and large washes of color to form shapes that are recognizable as faces, but without all of the visual information seen in traditional portraiture. The artist relies on the process to find the image, often starting with a sketch or a simple circle to build upon for the face. Working in a space between the representational and expressive, the artist is able to focus on emotion through abstraction so that the viewer can form their own narrative through each gesture and colorful brush stroke. More