Gigi Perkins (b. 2001) is an emerging landscape artist based in Utah. Her compositions are created from memory and seek to express connection-to and experience of place. Deeply committed to nature, Perkins is interested in art that can grant it agency. Her gravitation towards reduction woodcut printmaking in undergrad has influenced the way she builds image through color, form, and line with forms created gesturally and colors repeated to form vibrational patterns.
Perkins grew up in Park City, Utah and has been working as a river guide based out of Moab on the Green, Colorado, and Yampa rivers. She studied environmental science with an emphasis in chemistry and studio art with an interest in woodcut printmaking at Colorado College (2025). She spends her time trail running, split boarding, rafting, mountain biking, climbing, canyoneering, but mostly outside.
PROCESS
Working from photos feels like it's removing something from the translation of life into art. I like to work without a reference other than in person sketches or purely from memory. In this way the paintings/prints can serve as a more accurate capture of life and are able to take on a life of their own as they emerge.
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Fern Glen. Me sketching, the sketches, and a print from the canyon
Havasu. Sketching, the sketches I took of Havasu, and the painting