About the Artist

Ingrid is a self-taught mixed media artist and art journaler living and working in Cologne, Germany.

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she has worked in altered books and on paper for 15 years. In her practice, Ingrid lets intuition and chance lead the way. Tuning into the innate creativity and sense of possibility that all of us experience as children, she uses acrylics, collage, tempera, oil pastel, graphite, and whatever else she might get her hands on to explore the creative process.

CV:

• 2011: Teaching artist, 21 Secrets
• 2022: Group exhibition, Maryland Art Place
• 2022: Featured artist, Under the Influence Art Journaling
• 2023: Group exhibition, Maryland Art Place
• 2023: Featured artist, Messy May
• 2023: Group exhibition, Atelier No. 5
• 2024: Solo exhibition, Atelier No. 5
• 2024: Teaching artist, Get Messy Art

About the Blog

Ingrid first started publishing online in 2009. Today, she writes about her art, mental health, creativity, and paying attention to the here and now. Not sure where to start? Try one of these posts:

• Art Journaling 101
• Make Ugly Art
• You Are a Garden
• Change is the Only Constant

If you like, you can also subscribe to her quarterly newsletter.

Note: all Ingrid’s original content, including art, videos, photos, and text, is human-generated. Content from other sources (for example, others’ art journal pages or writing, all of which is credited within each post), cannot be guaranteed to be free of AI.