ABOUT
Ingrid lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone with an MFA in Art Society and Publics whilst maintaining her psychotherapy practice.
Early in her career she won the prestigious Monbusho Japanese scholarship to study traditional woodblock printmaking at Tama art university in Tokyo, thereafter settling in Copenhagen, Denmark for ten years.
During this time she had her family, continued her own art practice and established the ‘BellFree’ gallery promoting other artists.
A few years of uninterrupted art making in southern Spain provided time for exhibitions back in Copenhagen.
Wishing to return to Britain she was fortunate enough to be awarded several stipends from the Danish government to pursue a diploma in art therapy in Edinburgh.
Ingrid continues to work both as an artist and as an art psychotherapist.
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Forming new identities in distant lands is part of my trans-generational pattern that informs my life and art practice.
As a psychotherapist I consider the mind/body as being influenced by and in turn influencing our many facetted interdependent internal states. A place in which we experience and make meaning of the different aspects of heritage, language, culture and place.
As an artist some of these experiences are translated visually in the form of the figure and the natural world. Flower motifs symbolise place of origin and are either stand alone images or imposed with the figure to represent a combination of somatic experience and place.
Photo by Agnes Tominey