Greta Van Campen
Greta Van Campen
Mom and Dad's Mantle, 2024
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 9, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Isle au Haut, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 30"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 2, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Penobscot Bay, Near Vinalhaven, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 48"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 4, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
From Hurricane Island, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
30" x 60"
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 11, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Poppies and Anemones, 2024
Acrylic on panel
36" diameter
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 7, 2023
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
The Little House, 2024
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 1, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Sunset on Eagle Island, 2024
Acrylic on panel
24" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 8, 2023
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Nellie, Crescent Beach, 2024
Acrylic on panel
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 3, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Dawn Somewhere, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" diameter
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 6, 2023
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Noa Picking Raspberries in Mimi and Buppo’s Garden, 2024
Acrylic on panel
36" x 36"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 10, 2023
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
From Roaring Spout, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6-1/2" x 17"
SOLD
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 5, 2024
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Sloping Rock Birch Point State Park, 2023
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
Greta Van Campen
Untitled 12, 2023
Acrylic on panel
6" x 6"
Greta Van Campen
Nights on Barter’s Point Road, 2024
Acrylic on panel
24" x 24"
Greta Van Campen distills the world around her into prismatic, clean-edged images that visually thrum with clear notes of color. Reducing still life and landscape elements to essential forms, she pictures nature and domesticity as ordered arrangements of flat, abstracted shapes. Ocean and sky radiate from the horizon as swathes of fractured color or raking triangles of light. Islands, mountains, and trees appear as silhouettes, anchoring the expanse of land and sea. Growing up in an artistic household, her parents are artists Tim and Susan Van Campen, and now the mother of two small daughters with her partner Mike, Van Campen has recently been "thinking about 'home' and what that means to me." Several new interior scenes—spare, elegant still lifes inspired by her parent's home—are tone poems to treasured objects. "My life and my work are closely connected," she says. "There's no real separation for me, so in a sense, I paint what I live."
Van Campen received her BA with a major in Visual Art from Bowdoin College. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL; Garage Gallery, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT; Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; and Gallery BOM, Boston, MA, and included in numerous group shows throughout the United States. She has had residencies at Brush Creek Arts, Saratoga, WY; Wrangell Mountains Center, McCarthy, AK; and Borestone Mountain Audobon Sanctuary, Elliotsville, ME. She lives and works in Thomaston, ME.