BIOGRAPHY
Innovative American artist Gee Gee Collins explores an ever-changing environment in her distinctive abstract and figurative works, using pattern, colour and texture to strike a fine balance between beauty and chaos.
Collins approaches the canvas with ease, spontaneity, and a lack of inhibition which allows each idea to blossom into a beautiful and extravagant design. Playing with the idea of the feminine, she offers a fresh and dynamic take on the female form and her bold, confident brushstrokes infuse each painting with life, movement and unstoppable energy.
The organic lines and apparent whimsy of Collins’s signature style disguises the intricate creative process behind each piece. Inspired by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, she is fascinated by the interplay of colour and form and pitches intense black lines against a palette ranging from neutral or muted shades to an almost fluorescent vibrancy. She builds the paint into a richly textured series of layers which contrasts with the ethereal quality of the subject to ground them with a sense of permanence and history.
Collins was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She studied painting at the College of Charleston and received a degree in Fine Art from the University of Georgia before relocating to Italy to pursue her studies at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Cortona, Italy.
Collins’s celebrity collectors include fashion designer Christian Siriano who has designed dresses for Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey and who used her art for a Vogue photoshoot, as well as tennis star Cameron Norrie and Hollywood celebrity stylist Justine Marjan. She has exhibited in galleries and art fairs across the USA and was featured in ‘100 Artists of the Midwest’, a prominent book which takes a fresh look at 100 living artists and their work.