“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, Washington. 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

2016TBD, October, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA

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  
20th Juried Show, Schack Art Center, Everett, 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
Juried Arts at the Port, Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes WA

2013
Illumination, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle WA
Celebration, a 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   a n d   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

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.