Biography |
Galie Jean-Louis is a long-time artist, image-maker and alchemist
with over 25 years creating award-wining artwork. Daughter of renowned Canadian painter and sculptor Don C. Jean-Louis, Galie is passionate about the arts, architecture, design and the environment.
Jean-Louis’ monotypes and oil paintings examine relationships between humanity and land lines, meridians, light, elemental vaults, lodges, vessels — specifically how they relate to the micro and macro aspects of health and awareness of planet and body.
In her “Land Listening” series (monotype with oil shown here), she marries a non-dual awareness in the presence and absence of the land, sea and sky - as if seen from flying above as a satellite, angel, or spirit, rethinking both our personal relationships to the land - by mind or vessel- and raising questions about the critical issues about climate change, land conservation and ocean health.
Galie investigates the relationships between contrasting forms and space, presence, and magnetic longitudinal and latitudinal meridians. This is cultivated with observation and perspective as though you are elevated flying over the islands of Pacific Northwest, the islands around the world or the islands of your own awareness.
In her career as an artist, and visual journalist, her innovative work has been awarded over 200 gold and silver medals including being listed as one of the top100 innovators in our country in the 20th century-by ID design magazine. Jean-Louis’ work has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. She was the founding Executive Creative Director of MSNBC, and CNBC where she pioneered new pathways in visual arts and media design.
Galie had an auspicious childhood that included being French Canadian born in Toronto in 1966, and being raised in Alaska in a mixed family of French and East Indian cultures. During her teenage years, she spent long periods in India and the Himalayas, rooting her interests at the junction of Taoism, Kashmir Tantric, Hinduism and East Asian philosophies and healing arts.
Jean-Louis Louis’ work is inspired by Agnes Martin, the famous female minimalist painter, who “calls [art] the collapsing of linear networks”, and finding more beauty and spaciousness in seeing less.
Galie lives in Bellingham overlooking the beautiful Salish Sea with her husband where they love to be connected to nature, home, garden and studio. She is also a Board Certified Acupuncturist and Yogini who serves on several PNW boards related to her dedicated interests.