Ingrid Dohm

A new art studio and gallery located at 260 2nd Street, Suite 459, Lake Oswego, OR 97034.

My paintings capture the intensity and the very essence of my relationship to art. Floral images, from earliest childhood, have always remained the lynchpin that would lead me to further explorations for my artistic expressions.

I have seriously attempted other avenues of expression, such as portraits and abstract painting, but personal satisfaction has always eluded me.

Even in painting landscapes, a floral image may crop up here or there and often overtake it to become a floral landscape or a floral garden landscape. Still life suffers the same fate.

PERSONAL STATEMENT

The raison d’etre for my floral and landscape paintings can be traced directly to the influences that surrounded my early childhood. Born and raised in a small town in Austria near forests, glens and mountains, I was constantly seeking out the many varied kinds of floral beauty which is ever present in this land. During the summer months, in a high mountain lake enclosure, my siblings and I would make daylong forays into the forested areas solely to see what kinds of flowers we could encounter. A difficult find, but a most sought after one, was the edelweiss. This was so because one had to climb up the side of a mountain to see them growing as an outcropping in the rocks. This would become the trophy of the day! Another favored sight was the Christrose, commonly called the Schneerose or snow rose, because it could be seen popping up out of the snow cover on the ground.

In school I was always fascinated with any instrument be it pen, pencil or crayon, that could make anything from a strait line to a complicated image. I really never understood at the time why I had this strong attraction for art supplies, never could make the connection between it and my love of nature.

It wasn’t until I came to the United States and married that the association was made. A casual remark by my husband, that I had a natural talent and propensity to draw and paint, made me realize that I ought to get going. A starter paint kit was purchased and that’s the beginning of the story.


"For me a picture . . . . should be something likable, joyous
and pretty - yes, pretty. There are enough ugly things in life
for us not to add to them."

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1910


"Beauty is - this is another no-no. For a long time now we've been told that if it's beautiful, it must be bad. It must be corny, it must be no good. I think that's a fashion issue. And as far as I'm concerned, I don't care about it. You know, beauty happens sometimes, and if so, I'm going to go with it.

. . . . . . I'm not going to paint an ugly painting to get applause."

Janet Fish, 1999

Individual Artist Award, Rockford Area Arts Council, Mayor’s Arts Award, Rockford, IL, 2007

YWCA Blanche Ellis Starr Award for Leadership in the Arts, Rockford, IL 2006

Reflecting Achievement Award, Rockford Area Arts Council, Rockford, IL, 2004

Featured in The Artist's Magazine, September, 2000.

Artist for the years 2001, 2002 and 2005 Easter Seals Campaigns.

Finalist in the National Museum for Women in the Arts,
Washington, D.C., Illinois Chapter Millenium 2000 Show.

EDUCATION: Rockford College, Rockford, IL


BIOGRAPHY:

Born and raised in and a citizen of Austria, Ingrid is
married with three children. She divides her career between the U. S. and
Austria exhibiting her works and conducting painting workshops.

My paintings capture the intensity and the very essence of my relationship to art. Floral images, from earliest childhood, have always remained the lynchpin that would lead me to further explorations for my artistic expressions.

I have seriously attempted other avenues of expression, such as portraits and abstract painting, but personal satisfaction has always eluded me.

Even in painting landscapes, a floral image may crop up here or there and often overtake it to become a floral landscape or a floral garden landscape. Still life suffers the same fate.

PERSONAL STATEMENT

The raison d’etre for my floral and landscape paintings can be traced directly to the influences that surrounded my early childhood. Born and raised in a small town in Austria near forests, glens and mountains, I was constantly seeking out the many varied kinds of floral beauty which is ever present in this land. During the summer months, in a high mountain lake enclosure, my siblings and I would make daylong forays into the forested areas solely to see what kinds of flowers we could encounter. A difficult find, but a most sought after one, was the edelweiss. This was so because one had to climb up the side of a mountain to see them growing as an outcropping in the rocks. This would become the trophy of the day! Another favored sight was the Christrose, commonly called the Schneerose or snow rose, because it could be seen popping up out of the snow cover on the ground.

In school I was always fascinated with any instrument be it pen, pencil or crayon, that could make anything from a strait line to a complicated image. I really never understood at the time why I had this strong attraction for art supplies, never could make the connection between it and my love of nature.

It wasn’t until I came to the United States and married that the association was made. A casual remark by my husband, that I had a natural talent and propensity to draw and paint, made me realize that I ought to get going. A starter paint kit was purchased and that’s the beginning of the story.



SELECTED ONE WOMAN SHOWS

Die Wirtschaftskammer-Galerie, Vienna, Austria, 2002
Zurich-American, Schaumburg, IL, 2001
Arlington Green Executive Center, Arlington Heights, IL 2001

Zurich Insurance Company, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000
Northern Trust O'Hare, Chicago, IL 2000
Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago, IL, 2000
NICOR Corporate Gallery, Naperville, IL, 2000
Schloss Kammer, Attersee, Upper Austria, Austria, 1996, 1999

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, 1999
'Das Ronacher', Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria, 1997
Stadtische Galerie, Linz, Austria 1995
Kaiservilla, Bad Ischl, Austria, 1994

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

Freeport Arts Center, Freeport, IL 2000, 2003
Unilever Corporate Gallery, Rolling Meadows, IL, 2000, 2002
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, "Flora: The Beauty of
Botanicals in Art", 2003


MEDIA

Television Interviews:

Artist to Artist Program, AT&T Broadband Cable Access
Stations, Chicago North and West Suburbs, 2001

Insight Communications Channel 17, Rockford, IL , 1999
WPTI Channel 10, Loves Park, IL, 1983

Public Television Auctions:

WHA-TV, Madison, WI, 1999, 2001, 2004

WNPE-16, Watertown, NY, 1998

Publications:

Illustration for Sonnenkringel und Schattenstreiffen, Ilse
Lassner,
PS Verlag, Payerbach, Austria 1992

Illustration for the Austrian Red Cross 1996 Christmas Card.