About

Thank you for visiting! I’m a Seattle painter, educator, and writer focusing on color in abstracted narrative paintings and in day-to-day life.

I recently earned an MFA at Liverpool John Moores University in England, in Transart Institute’s program. My research and thesis centered around a concept I call Slow Color—deepening aesthetic and personal relationships with color, and deliberately using color in artmaking and daily life for beneficial purposes. As an extension of my graduate research I wrote the book Slow Color Project: Using Color to Find Meaning, Focus, and Joy, illustrating the book with my paintings.

I am an alumna of Modern Color Atelier with Kimberly Trowbridge through Gage Academy of Art. I have studied art at several other schools, including University of Washington, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and Photographic Center Northwest.

My aesthetic influences also come from unexpected places: I hold a culinary degree from Seattle Culinary Academy, a school with a strong sustainability focus. At SCA I learned to pair the aesthetic, visceral experiences of cuisine with thematic concepts and environmental significance.

I have also worked two years as a food stylist/photographer and writer for Edible Seattle Magazine, and as a teacher of various subjects ranging from writing to painting to cooking for over a decade.

In my personal life I’ve also studied Chinese 5 Elements for over 20 years. Feng shui, Chinese face reading, Chinese Medicine—all of these have an impact on design and color, and how color and images affect our very bodies, minds and spirits as we experience them. Art can heal, in subtle and powerful ways. I feel like many of us could use more color in our lives, and each color is important in different ways. I use color in paintings with care. Each work of art we have in our spaces can hold powerful significance.

I live in the northwest area of Seattle with my small family of makers.

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Curriculum Vitae

ANNE LIVINGSTON

Born in Annapolis, MD

Lives and works in Seattle, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Shoe Show — Market Street Shoes, Seattle, WA
2023 Slow Color Project — The Ballard Collective, Seattle, WA
2021 Painting the Song – Verity Credit Union, Seattle, WA
2020 Pairings Virtual Art Show – Market Street Shoes, Seattle, WA
2019 Color Backstory – Verity Credit Union, Seattle, WA
2019 Spring Flowers Art Show & Live Painting – Market Street Shoes, Seattle, WA
2019 Snow Day – Classic Consignment, Seattle, WA
2018 Delicious – Addo, Seattle, WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Series Under the Same Sky — Virtual Worldwide Group Show
2025 Environmental Ties — Magnuson Park Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025 Club V — Ford Gallery PDX, Portland, OR
2025 Magnitudes — Phase/55 Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Under 10 Inches — Phase/55 Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Warmth and Whimsy: Spring/Summer Show — The Ballard Collective, Seattle, WA
2024 Collab —The Ballard Collective, Seattle, WA
2024 Bodies — The Ballard Collective, Seattle, WA
2023 Joy, Light, and Hope — The Ballard Collective, Seattle, WA
2023 Abstract, Iterate - Rose & Orange Studios, Seattle, WA
2022 The Bathers - Equinox Studios, Seattle, WA
2022 Come Together Now - Push/Pull Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 Fruiting Bodies - Push/Pull Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 Modern Color Atelier Student Exhibition - Equinox Studios, Seattle, WA
2022 Best of Gage - Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2022 Gage Spring Art Auction and Gala - Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2021 Modern Color Atelier Student Exhibition - Equinox Studios, Seattle, WA
2021 Best of Gage – Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2020 Best of Gage – Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2019 Holidaze Holiday Art Market – Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2019 AWE: Artistic Women’s Endeavors – Made Co-working Space, Seattle, WA
2019 Best of Gage – Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2018 AWE Holiday – Art Show Made Co-working Space, Seattle, WA
2018 Natural Forces – Made Co-working Space, Seattle, WA
2018 In the Making – Sunset Hill Community Club, Seattle, WA

WRITTEN PUBLICATIONS

2023 Slow Color Project: Using Color to find Meaning, Focus and Joy, author

2012-2014 Edible Seattle Magazine, regular columnist

EDUCATION

Degrees Earned

2023 MFA Creative Practice, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England
2012 AAS in Culinary Arts, Seattle Culinary Academy, Seattle, WA
1995 Master in Teaching, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
1992 BA, Comparative Literature/Italian, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Selected Painting, Drawing, and Photography Coursework

2021-2022 Modern Color Atelier, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2019-2022 Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2012 Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2001 Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1998 Academy of Realist Art (now Gage Academy), Seattle, WA
1989 University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Selected Instructors Studied Under

Jeffrey Simmons
Kimberly Trowbridge
Linda James
Terry Furchgott
Barbara Fugate
Patricia Ridenour

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

2017-present Professional Painter, Independent
2009-16 Food Stylist and Photographer, Writer, Independent
2012-14 Food Stylist, Photographer, Writer, Recipe Developer, Edible Seattle Magazine
1996-2006 Teacher, English Department Head, Grade Level Team Leader, Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bellevue, WA
1998-2000 Dean of Students, Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bellevue, WA
1996-99 Painting & Drawing Instructor, Forest Ridge Summer Program & Clubs, Belleveue, WA

ART AND ACTIVISM PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS

2019 Color Backstory Project – A one-year project in which I researched, painted illustrative color studies for, and wrote about the relevant history and properties of over 50 paint pigments and colors, sharing the paintings and research on social media to engage about the findings.
2018 Tahara – Art directed and painted in Aura Ruddell’s music video, directed by Alwin Szeto.
2018 Fashionable Resistance – Collaboration with Millinery Shannon Stabbert. Art piece hat decorated with flowers that represented founding principles of our country. Exhibited at the Art of Millinery Show at Social Fabric in Bellingham, WA.
2016 SoupZine – Wrote, illustrated and published a zine-sized soup cookbook as a fundraiser for Earthjustice.
2002 Facing the Future – Served as an educator representative for Facing the Future program to integrate curriculum at Forest Ridge School: Building global awareness and critical thinking for solutions in world sustainability.
1999-2006 Global Days – Co-created, co-organized and implemented an annual campus-wide, multi-day education event at Forest Ridge School to build awareness and critical thinking about the most urgent issues for our planet. These events included group collaborations to create large-scale art projects and installations to demonstrate understanding and strategies.

AWARDS & HONORS

2022 2nd Place, Abstract Category in Painting, Best of Gage, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2019 3rd Place, Abstract Category in Painting, Best of Gage, Gage Academy, Seattle, WA
2019 Selection for Seattle Asian American Film Festival – Music Video Tahara (Art Director and Painter), Seattle, WA
2009 Winner, Product Photography, Foodsnap, Seattle, WA