Artist Statement

"Through interactions with forests, learning from indigenous peoples and studying cosmology, I have come to perceive that everything on the Earth is a manifestation of Earth and its interplay with cosmic forces. I believe everything is interconnected and sentient. These ideas have been a central part of my art for over twenty years. Art is my medium for pondering the universe and my way of responding to the world. It is a delight to communicate my ideas by putting color on a surface and forming it into meaning. I love moving the paint and making lines."

January 2008

 

Artist Biography

Thompson has just moved to Camano Island from the Boston area. She has been painting and exhibiting her work professionally since 1979. Her paintings have shown in galleries in Boston, New York, Washington, and Oregon. Notably, she was invited to exhibit at The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Culminating Conference on Religions of the World and Ecology. Thompson has had numerous solo exhibitions in Massachusetts Audubon nature sanctuaries. Her art has been in print in Sanctuary Magazine, EarthLight, In Context Magazine, and appeared on the cover of Dream Change Magazine. Her art is on the cover of a CD of indigenous music from the Amazon Jungle and the book cover Exploring Shamanism by HS Webb. Her paintings are in many private collections across the Americas.