“My aim is to evoke the feelings of calm, humility, and intimacy that can be experienced in a moment of connection with our landscape.”
Christine Olson Gedye is a Northwest contemporary landscape painter based in Seattle. She creates luminous, atmospheric paintings in oil on panel using thin, transparent glazes. As an antidote to the complexity and hectic pace of modern life, she specializes in images that convey an air of simplicity, space and stillness.
Gedye was born and raised in Minnesota, and has lived in New York, London, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia. She received her art training at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle and the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, Australia. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, and it is heavily featured in the best-selling technique book, Elements of Landscape Oil Painting by Suzanne Brooker (Watson-Guptill).
S e l e c t S o l o S h o w s
2015 Arboreality, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Northwest Horizons, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2012 Water | Vapor, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 East of Here, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Edge of Light, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 New Works, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 People, Places and Things, Trine Studio, Seattle, WA
2005 Shifting Light, Trine Studio, Seattle, WA
S e l e c t J u r i e d a n d G r o u p S h o w s
2016 Arts at the Port, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA
Women’s Work, Bellevue Arts Museum Community Education Gallery, Bellevue WA
Abstract Marks, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
2015 Peace, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle WA
Painting Poetry, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
Wall Flowers, Wallflower Gallery, West Seattle, WA
Art in Bloom Invitational, The Depot, Anacortes, WA
2014 Harmony, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
Arts at the Port, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA
2013 Illumination, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
Celebration (WPW Traveling Exhibition): Schack Art Center, Bellingham, WA, WPW Gallery, Seattle, Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia WA, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend WA, Clymer Museum, Ellensburg WA
2012 Celebration of Washington Artists, Washington Convention Center, Seattle
Summer Days, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes WA
Observations, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
2011 Music, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle WA
Members Show, EAFA Gallery, Seattle Design Center, Seattle WA
2010 Fresh Paint, Peterson-Cody Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Light in the Air, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
WPW Spring Members Show, Kaewyn Gallery, Bothell WA
Edmonds Art Fair Juried Show, Edmonds WA
2009 Bel Canto, New Dimensions Gallery, Bellevue WA
Sojourns, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
2008 Waters Alive, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
Painting Out Loud, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
2007 Small Gifts, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle WA
Plein Air Festival, Honorable Mention, Hardware Store, Vashon WA
Innervision (Landscape Invitational), Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle WA
2006 Chicken or Egg Invitational, Silverwood Gallery, Vashon Island WA
A w a r d s & C o l l e c t i o n s
2014 Don de Llamas Advocate Award, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA
2013 Merit Award (Lisa Harris, Juror) WPW Members Show, WPW Gallery, Seattle WA
2012 Merit Award, WPW Summer Show, Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA
2011 Swedish Hospital, Issaquah Highlands Campus
First Place Award, Juliette Aristedes Juror, WPW Spring Show, WPW Gallery, Seattle WA
2010 Honorable Mention and People’s Choice Award, Fresh Paint National Juried Show, Peterson-Cody Gallery, Santa Fe NM
Merit Award (Barbara Shaiman, Juror) and People’s Choice Winner, WPW Members Show, WPW Gallery, Seattle WA
People’s Choice Winner, Light in the Air, WPW Gallery, Seattle WA
2009 First Prize, Women Painters of Washington Members Show, Bellevue WA
2007 Vashon Plein Air Festival, Honorable Mention. Vashon Island WA
P u b l i c a t i o n s
2015 Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, by Suzanne Brooker. Watson-Guptill.
2013 10 x 10 x 10 x Tieton 2013, Juried Exhibition of Art Catalog, Marquand Editions
Wondrous Waterways, American Art Collector Magazine, John O’Hern. April.