Ingunn Milla Joergensen | Daybreak | Oil | 30" X 48" | $4200

Local artist Ingunn Milla Joergensen has always been drawn to these beautiful, timeless structures.

"My barns have become my meditation," Joergensen shares. "In a world with so much going on, I find solace in their grounded and timeless appearance."

Ingunn Milla Joergensen | Quietude  | Oil on Canvas with 14K Gold Leaf | 30" X 30" | $3000

Each piece is slightly different, with a change in color or light, the addition of nature, or a touch more shadow.  

"Representing the past, present, and future, the barns are reliable, quiet …, and soulful," says Joergensen, "and most often unpretentious in their understated beauty."

Ingunn Milla Joergensen | Blush Dawn  | Oil on Canvas with 14K Gold Leaf | 36" X 36" | $3700

Even though each artist has a commentary in their head about what is going on in a piece of work, sometimes someone else still says it best. With Blush Dawn, Joergensen found the perfect words in The Sun by Mary Oliver.

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any
language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?