Ingrid Winkler grew up in Germany and since an early age, she has had a great love of drawing.After finishing her public schooling, Ingrid received her technical drawingeducation and continued on with a successful fifteen year business career in the architectural field.In 1978, she quit work to devote more time to her family.At this time, she also took several art courses in watercolour and life drawing, where she met her most inspiring teacher and her mentor in A.L.N. Mondry, a well-known artist in Germany. He taught her to see the important things in her subjects, not to be over concerned with detail and realism, to work freely with colour, forms and materials and most importantly to create spontaneously, all which seemed to comply with her basic nature.
Waterbased media is her favoured technique besides soft pastel, oil, acrylic and lino cut.It allows her to deal with different kinds of paper and canvas, brushes, spatulas, wine corks, bamboo sticks, or even fingers.
Ingrid was involved in several group and solo shows in Germany and also taught life drawing to adults for three years at a community college.
In 1993, she and her family immigrated to Canada where she opened her own gallery, the W.I.N. Art Gallery in Summerland.Since her arrival in Canada she has been able to spend more time in her studio and exhibit her art works all over B.C.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

At the moment, I am working on a series of landscapes called "STRUCTURED DIALOGUE”
The outlines and the colours as well as the barrenness and abundance of the Okanagan Valley are recurrent characteristics which I like to rework in my paintings where the images representvery personal experiences in my everyday life.I paint what I know, not what I see.
By using different types of techniques, like acrylics and soft pastelanda process of simplification I concentrate and abstract its essence in order to analyze and capture the changing facets of nature in an unlimited structured dialogue.

Solo Exhibitions
2005 “Structured Dialogue” Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.
2003 “Structured Dialogue” Island Mountain Art Gallery,
Wells, B.C.
2001 “Balancing Act” Tumbleweed Gallery, Penticton, B.C.
1995 “The Works of Ingrid Winkler” Summerland Art
Gallery, Summerland B.C.

Two Person Exhibition
2001“Figurative Narritives” Summerland Art Gallery,
Summerland, B.C.

Three-Person and Group Exhibitions
2001“Artropolis 2001 Consolidation..., Vancouver, B.C.
2000 “Shared Premises” Armstrong Spallumcheen Art
Gallery, Armstrong, B.C.
“A Place to Stay Forever” Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton,B.C.
1999 “Cultural Imprints” Campbell River and District Art
Gallery, Campbell River
“Traces and Imprints” Comox Valley Art Gallery,
Courtenay, B.C.
“Okanagan Creates” Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.
1998 “Imprints” Prince George Art Gallery, Prince
George, B.C.
“...with an accent” Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.
“Cultural Imprints” Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand
Forks, B.C.
“Okanagan Creates” Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.
1997 “Members’ Exhibitions” Alternator Gallery, Kelowna,
B.C.
1996 “Sightlines” W.I.N. Art Gallery, Summerland, B.C.
“Land Biography... Pa(y)ssages of the Okanagan”
Kelowna Art Gallery
“Ironman Canada 1996” Art Gallery of the South
Okanagan, Penticton, B.C.