I am an artist, naturopathic doctor, mother, environmentalist, and lover of sleeping under the stars.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Capturing a sense of place and pulling you into the landscape is the aim of my current paintings.

For me, art is medicine.

Pausing to connect, notice, and let a place impact you, changes you. However, many of us rarely pause. We live in the furfur of our to do lists and the expectations we, or others, have set.

When you stop and embrace the place you have decided to be, your body and mind change. The landscape gets under your skin. When you begin to deeply look at and feel a place, your nervous system reacts. Often matching the pace of the environment.

I like to collect those places. The places that impact me, make me pause, and teach me something. They calm my nervous system and are healing places. But only if I take the time to pause and notice.

My hope is that my paintings also pull you in and make you pause.

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BIO

Through her acrylic landscape paintings, Emily Livengood is interested in capturing the emotion felt when experiencing the raw beauty of the Pacific Northwest and High Desert environments. Her distinctive style, blending impressionistic elements with a contemporary use of color, invites the viewer to pause, breathe, and feel (not just observe) the landscape.

Livengood received her BS in 2001 from Iowa State University after completing training in both biological pre-medical illustration and ecology. She went on to complete her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University in 2013. She currently owns and operates Rainwood Integrative Medicine in Bend, Oregon, a naturopathic clinic focused on treating midlife women. Throughout her medical training and practice, Livengood has also cultivated her artistic career, participating in multiple art exhibits throughout the Pacific Northwest and taking drawing and painting classes at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, Washington.

Livengood's unique combination of technical artistic skill and ecologic and medical knowledge results in paintings that not only represent the beauty of the landscape but also tell a story of the layers of emotion the place evokes.