Completing the Circle by Ingrid Christensen
After studying Art and English at the University of British Columbia, Ingrid went on to teach these subjects at the junior and senior high school levels. She eventually quit teaching to pursue art full-time, making a living at first as a ceramic artist, and later as a metalsmith.
More recently, Ingrid’s focus has been on both oil and watercolour painting. She paints a variety of subjects, including landscapes and figurative works.
Ingrid has participated in a number of exhibitions across western Canada, including Artist’s Window at the Calgary Stampede, Human Figure (2007) at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver (where she won the Juror’s Choice award), and the 2009 Calgary Home and Garden Show. She is an active member of both the Federation of Canadian Artists, and the Alberta Society of Artists.
You can learn more about Ingrid and her work at www.icartstudios.com.
Artwork Description
This oil painting is a bold and contemporary piece of work that harmoniously depicts the vitality of interconnected collaboration between all health care professionals. Eyes are drawn immediately to the pharmacist in the painting as she is the only figure who is looking out of the picture. She is depicted to be counseling a patient in a relaxed and personable manner. On the left side of the painting, there is a man loading a syringe, who can represent a variety of health care professionals. He can be a nurse or a pharmacist in light of the profession’s new scope of practice in administering injections. Other health care professionals illustrated include a pharmacy technician, a dietician, a surgeon and a physiotherapist.
The colors used in this painting were purposely chosen to emphasize both the historical and modern aspects of pharmacy. Woven throughout the figures and the background in the top part of the painting is green. This is in reference to the natural world: the origin of medicine. On the left side, a cooler blue tone bathes the lab coats of the figures in representation of modern pharmacy practice.