Original Artwork & Illustration
Welcome to my Art Journey
Karin Bolstad is an eclectic fine artist with a background in illustration and design, and training in Byzantine Iconography. Her work trends female-figurative, though she is not adverse to flora and fauna as subject matter. Her current medium of choice is the traditional technique of egg tempera.
“I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us—albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.
Art is a nations most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
— Lyndon Johnson, American President ‘63-’69
“When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life.”