About
Greta resides in St. Louis Missouri, USA where she was raised and had access to free art, history and science museums as well as many local libraries which helped shape her love of art and the mysteries of the natural world. She began sewing as a child and quickly moved on to all forms of handwork and painting. She received a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.
Artist Statement
I work with the theme of florals, as they are conventionally understood to be pleasing and invoke familiarity and comfort as they shield patterns of disorder. Color is feeling and mark making the scars. There are multiple layers of, building up, sanding down and carving into to achieve a surface representing the process of discovering, excising and healing injuries. Reminiscent of the mechanics of handwork and the history embedded as it fades, frays, thins with time and is repaired to continue its usefulness.
Commercial work is licensed to companies for wide scale production.
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