Erin Power is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and printmaking. Raised outside of Seattle, WA, she considers the Pacific Northwest her home base, even as her work and teaching have taken her abroad. Her practice explores how we experience, remember, and interpret the environments around us. Through layered surfaces, repetition, and shifts in texture and tone, she investigates how familiar, and imagined, places change over time.
Alongside her studio practice, Erin has spent the past 20 years teaching visual arts in international schools and creative programs worldwide. This experience has shaped her interest in visual storytelling, research-based artmaking, and learning through observation and making.
Residencies have played a key role in shaping her observation-based, research-driven approach, including the Les Tapies Teaching Residency in southern France (2012) and an artist residency in Cappadocia, Türkiye (2024). Her work has been exhibited throughout the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast of the United States, as well as internationally in Ireland and Türkiye. Recent highlights include the A.R.C. Year 3 exhibition at Ambidexter Gallery, Istanbul (2026); presentations at the Lowe House Office Building (Maryland House of Delegates, Annapolis); selection for the Museum of Northwest Art annual fundraising auction (2024, 2025); and presenting Constructed Radiance with S.E.A. Galeri at the 2025 Istanbul Art and Antique Fair.
Her work can be viewed at erinnpower.com, and she can be found on Instagram at @erinnpower_studio.