“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.