Painting en plein aire on the Aegean Coast.
About the Artist
Erin Power is a multidisciplinary artist from the Pacific Northwest, now based between Washington State and Türkiye. Her work centers on the ways humans shape, experience, and remember the environments around them.
Power grew up in Washington State surrounded by forests, shorelines, and shifting light; landscapes that first taught her to look closely and to understand place as layered, historical, and mutable. This early sensitivity to material traces and atmospheric change later became the foundation for both her creative practice and her approach to teaching. She earned her BA in Art Education and Art History from Western Washington University in 2004 and later completed her MAEd at Seattle Pacific University.
Over the next two decades, Power built a career as an art educator, including fifteen years teaching internationally. She has taught preparatory courses for AP Studio Art (Drawing and 2D) and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Visual Arts course, and she currently serves as an IBDP Visual Arts examiner. Her years working across cultures and architectural contexts, from the Pacific Northwest to Europe, and Türkiye, reinforced her interest in how place, memory, and material history intersect. These experiences increasingly shaped the direction of her studio work, prompting her to explore the marks, surfaces, and spatial geometries that reveal how built and natural environments evolve over time.
Power continued to deepen her artistic practice through studies at the Seattle Artist League, the Art Students League of New York, the New York Studio School, and through mentorships in drawing, painting, photography, and printmaking. Residencies also played a significant role in refining her research-driven, observation-based approach. She attended the Les Tapies Teaching Residency in southern France in 2012. She later completed an artist residency in Cappadocia, Türkiye, a region whose geological time, carved interiors, and shifting light have become central to her current bodies of work.
She has participated in more than numerous group exhibitions throughout the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast of the United States, as well as internationally in Ireland and Türkiye. Her work has been displayed at Lowe House, the official offices of the Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis, Maryland. It was also selected by the Museum of Northwest Art (La Conner, WA) for their annual fundraising auction in 2024 and 2025. Most recently, she presented her Constructed Radiance series with S.E.A. Galeri at the 2025 Istanbul Art and Antique Fair.