Within Arms Reach
Hope Olson is an acrylic painter based in Holland, Michigan. Her art celebrates home, habitat, and the places people cherish. The compositions and colors of her abstracted still life and landscape paintings are inspired by a long-held affection for interior decorating, historic architecture, old country villages, and early 20th century art. Hope particularly borrows from the sensibilities of the Fauvist art movement, which emphasizes strong colors and marks that magnify mood and compel curiosity. She earned a B.S. in Interior Design from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and also focused her coursework in studio art and marketing. Her paintings are part of various private collections and have been regionally exhibited alongside the work of Eugene Delacroix, Fairfield Porter, Lois Dodd, Robert De Niro Sr., and others.