Artist: Greta Swaim
Medium: Acrylic/Oil
Linear expressionist

Education
VANCOUVER MUSEUM OF ART, Vancouver, British Columbia
THE ART INSTITUTE, Vancouver, British Columbia
NORTHERN ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Flagstaff, AZ.(20th Century Art; Color Theory)
 
ARTISTS STATEMENT
MY CURRENT SERIES HAS EVOLVED FROM PLANE PEOPLE,HEADLINES, TO PURE LINEAR expressionISM AND AT TIMES ABSTRACT expressionISM. MY ARTISTIC VISION THOUGH STILL SOMETIMES CUBISTIC, HAS BECOME MUCH MORE ABSTRACT AND LINEAR, AND I FIND MY PAINTNGS ARE RESPONDING MORE TO MUSIC.  I WORK WITHOUT A SCORE, IMPROVISING AS I GO, AN INTUITIVE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT LEAVES SHAPES AND IDEAS TO SUGGEST THEMSELVES.
 
Swaim's Work is held by many discriminating Collectors in many parts of the World. She has had many One Woman Shows, One of her pieces "United Visions" won Best in Show in three countries, Canada, USA and Central America and travelled from New York throughout the country.  Swaim has developed her own Genre and is easily recognized and in most cases she only has to initial her work in all four corners and then sign the back enabling the viewer (when the piece is purely abstract) to decide which way they choose to view the piece.
Spring 2009 Finalist for the cover of the first edition of the National Art Magazine Art/Sync
Fall 2010  Finalist The Artist's Magazine International Art Competion, December issue.