Louise Victor is an artist, passionate about her work and eager to inspire others to explore their creativity. Her undergraduate years were spent at Northern Illinois University, continuing her graduate work at the University of Minnesota. Her paintings explode with energy, movement and color, evoking worlds that are familiar, intriguing and captivating. In addition to her painting, Louise is an educator, having taught and mentored others for many years. Her lectures and workshops have been presented at Arts Benicia, Marin MOCA, the ICB, Jen Tough Gallery and The Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Her interest in everything creative has brought her employment as a curator, architectural draughtsman, printmaker, bookmaker and illustrator, along with her painting and drawing. You can find her work on many book covers, and in magazines and publications including the SF Chronicle, Posit Journal, Hawkhaven Press,, Clockroot Press, Kater Murr Press, Harbor Mountain Press and Rochester Magazine. Her paintings are in many private collections as well as the collections of Northern Illinois University, the University of Minnesota and on permanent display at the University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Campus. Foundational to Louise’s visual expression is her many years as an aviator. She is the second woman in the world to qualify as a Captain on the Boeing 757/767 and is greatly influenced by her experiences of flying as a commercial airline pilot, capturing in her paintings the “the feeling of the substance of the air, its supporting power, its buoyancy“.