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Owen Strickland
“I paint in a drafty garage studio in Duluth, a few blocks up the hill from Lake Superior. Working as a surveyor's assistant taught me to read distance and how land layers back toward the horizon. I lay down seafoam and pewter washes while the paper is still soaked, then drop in a single dark pine line. The lake fog does the rest, and I leave the sky almost bare.”
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About Owen
Owen Strickland paints in a drafty garage studio in Duluth, Minnesota, a few blocks up the hill from Lake Superior. Before he picked up the brush full time, he worked as a land surveyor’s assistant, and the job taught him to read distance and to see how land layers back, ridge by ridge, toward the horizon. He later earned his BFA at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and that surveyor’s eye for space and quiet measurement still shapes every piece he makes.
Owen works in watercolor on heavy 300 lb rough paper. While the sheet is still soaked, he lays down soft washes of seafoam and pewter, then drops in a single dark line of pine. The lake fog does the rest, and he leaves the sky almost bare. The result is minimal, calm, and full of breathing room: northern shorelines and tree lines that feel like a cool morning on the water. His canvases suit bedrooms, bathrooms, reading corners, and living rooms with light woods and soft neutrals, anywhere a wall could use a little stillness. Below are Strickland’s canvases in our shop, ready to hang.
- Based in
- Duluth, MN
- Style
- Watercolor, Minimalism
- Fun fact
- Paints in fingerless wool gloves all winter and dries washes with an old space heater.
