MOMENT BY MOMENT
Gigi Degerlund turns mark making, splatters, textures, and circular shapes into large abstract paintings.
Grateful for her mentors, she believes we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Her work blends nature, art, and science, shaped by travel, software engineering, manual therapy, and anatomy education.
She enjoys watching as a painting unfolds moment by moment, solving creative puzzles as new layers appear.
Colorado
b. 1964
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EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS
CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY
In her Denver, CO private practice
UPCOMING
2026 Creative Exhibition, Posner Center - Denver, CO - 9/26/2026
EXHIBITS
2026 Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus Open House - Golden, CO
2026 artma Event - Formations auctioned for MorganAdamsFoundation.org
2025 Pirate Contemporary Art - Denver, CO - Outsiders Exhibit
1982 Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities - Colorado - Honorable Mention
COLLECTIONS
Joyful - Private Collector
Formations - Private Collector
Intersections No.1 - Private Collector
Intersections No. 2 - Private Collector
Love - Private Collector
Pelican - Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado
PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATION
2021 From Hope to Habit: Science based Solutions to Live Your Best Intentions,
Dr. Margit Cox Henderson, PhD
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FROM SPLAT MARKS TO CANVAS
"There's always an experiment happening."
Gigi's expressive, layered works explore natural forms and textures. She experiments with drawing, color, texture, and shape, and finds inspiration in residual marks left on splat papers.
One day, while removing the papers from beneath her small art journals, she noticed the imprints, and thought, "Why not paint sections of these, much larger?". Inspired, she now works on large surfaces using acrylics and other mediums.
Project photos: splatter marks, cropped sections, painting Passageway 48 x 60 in.
Splat paper marks
Cropped section
Detail cropped section
Painting
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THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF ORIGINAL ART ON YOUR BODY
Original art changes more than a wall. It changes you.
Standing before a real painting, your body responds in ways a print never triggers. Breath deepens. Muscles soften. The nervous system downshifts from "alert" to "at ease."
Science now shows why: a King's College London study found that viewing original art in person drops cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, by 22% and calms inflammatory proteins by up to 30%. It engages both deep relaxation and alive, curious attention, suggesting cultural experiences may play a role in protecting both mind and body.
Gigi paints as someone who knows the body from the inside out. Decades of working hands-on with anatomy, movement, and the nervous system shape how she approaches the canvas. Her paintings are layered and kinetic. She calls them "a living landscape." They're made to be met by a living body. To be felt, not just seen.
Living with original art is a daily invitation back to that state: regulated, present, at ease in your own skin, and alive.
Gigi's original paintings are currently on view in her Denver, CO private manual therapy clinic.
Inquiries to see the work in person are welcome. Plans for hosting guest artists are in the works.
Click to enlarge individual photos.
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you.
Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision.
So write and draw and play and dance and live as only you can.
- Neil Gaiman
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