Shannon Borg

Studio #2

Oil Painting, Prints, Ceramics, Paper Sculpture

667 Heritage Ct

(360) 317-6563
shannonborgfineart.com

Shannon Borg is an artist, writer and art & business coach.

After years working in publishing as a writer and editor, Shannon studied oil painting at the Trowbridge Atelier / Gage Academy of Arts in Seattle from 2018 to 2020. She is a member of the Friday Harbor Atelier, and has shown her paintings, ceramics and paper sculpture there, as well as at WaterWorks Gallery in Friday Harbor and Museo Gallery in Langley, Washington.

Ms. Borg has written about travel, food, wine, and the arts for Seattle Weekly, Seattle magazine, Northwest Palate, Wine Press Northwest, and other publications. She has published three books: Corset, a book of poems; Chefs on the Farm: Recipes & Inspiration from the Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts, and The Green Vine: A Guide to West Coast Organic, Biodynamic and Sustainable Wines.

Ms. Borg has a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Washington.

Artist’s Statement

A driftwood-scattered beach is a message written in runes, a story of shapes, color and light, waiting to be told.

My paintings capture landscapes that are part imagined, part real. I love to wander the beaches of the San Juan Islands with my camera, framing the geology and flora, the flotsam and jetsam the sea tosses in.

I study the ways people interact with the landscape—driftwood shelters, fire pits, shrines and cairns—and how light and weather interacts with what has been built.