Ernestine Louise is a writer and painter. The page, canvas, and paper – are as important as the word, paint colors, and placement of them for me. As an artist, she strives for her work to push boundaries in thinking, process, and development. She intentionally leaves room for the observer to engage with her work from their own perspective. She works with paper, acrylic, and mixed media. Her work is an exploration of the self, space, place, feelings, emotions, and color in a non-concrete way. Placed-based art is essential to her practice, using a method of ̈en plein air ̈, not to paint the landscape, but to use the elements of nature as material and co-creator. Her work engages others in a conversation that starts at the surface that moves into deeper levels of self-exploration, understanding, acceptance, rejection, revelation, the aim of her work and practice. She moved to Oslo, Norway, in 2018 to work as an artist.
Her first collection of poetry, "Influence of Place", was published in 2019. Her literary and artistic work has been presented and exhibited in the United States, Spain, Ireland, Norway, and England. Continue reading here