Aimee Erickson born in 1967, Paris is an oil painter living in Portland, Oregon. She was prepared as an artist and has built up a warm, welcoming pictorial voice grounded in customary authenticity, educated by the standards of outline, and roused by nature and human experience. She holds a BFA in Visual Communication Design, and has likewise examined with various conspicuous painters including Sherrie McGraw, David Leffel, Burton Silverman, Joseph Paquet, William Park, Stephen Hayes, and Ray Roberts.

Aimee is the first woman artist to paint an Oregon gubernatorial representation, that of Barbara Roberts in 1997. The picture hangs in the Oregon State House, upstairs on the assembly side.

Aimee shows studio and plein-air painting, drawing, and shading hypothesis locally and at settings across the country. She has a specific enthusiasm for what empowers or hinders our advance as specialists. How would we figure out how to perceive what we can't yet observe? How do our convictions impact our capacity to see? What is the part of information in the domain of decision? How would we "tune in" to our aesthetic discernment?

Aimee's work has been granted best prizes in numerous national rivalries, including Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, the Portrait Society of America, and different eminent plein air rivalries.

Awards & Shows

2017 Best of Show and Museum Purchase Award, Pacific Northwest Plein Air
2017 Best of Show and Clyde Aspevig Judge's Choice Awards, Olmsted Plein Air
2017 Door County Plein Air
2017 "Six by Nine Sale," Portrait Society of America invitational show
2017 Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition
2017 Oil Painters of America Paint-out/paint-in, 4th place

2016 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational
2016 Second Place & Best Water, Pacific Northwest Plein Air
2016 Best of Show, Just Plein Fun, Balboa Island, California
2016 End-of-Residency Solo Exhibition, University Club of Portland
2016 Still Life Honorable Mention, OPA National Exhibition, Dallas TX
2016 5th Place, OPA's Best Little Paint-out in Texas
2016 University Club of Portland Artist-in-Residence Alumni Showcase
2016 Mid-Residency Solo Show, University Club of Portland
2016 "All Along the Sierra" Juried Show at Epperson Gallery
2016 "Less is More" LPAPA at Forest & Ocean Gallery

Events

Pacific NW Plein Air
9/5/2017

"Smoky Sunrise" by Aimee Erickson is awarded Best of Show in this year's Pacific Northwest Plein Air event, hosted by the Maryhill Museum of Art.



Olmsted Plein Air 2017
9/5/2017

Aimee Erickson's painting "Revival" takes Best of Show and the Clyde Aspevig Judge's Choice Award at Olmsted