Lin
Haak
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Lin lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband
Dave, a fishing guide on the Columbia River. Lin has been painting in oil for
twenty years, painting on birch panels, aluminum or galvanized flashing. She
describes her creative process:
“I draw into the wet paint, revealing the underlying support. The tremor
in my hand makes this line work lively, and intensely personal. Following my
diagnosis of multiple sclerosis four years ago, I found myself struggling with
painting indoors rather than out; sitting instead of standing... Windowsill
paintings offer me a chance to think about outside and inside, and how they are
never exactly where we think.... I call these paintings windowsill meditations.
I think of them as stories I tell.” |
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