Seanie
Haik Kohnke
Seanie was born in New Orleans in 1963 and resides in Metairie, La. Surrounded by great talent expressed in a variety of media, her mother, an artist herself, inspired her to study art in college. With a minor in art from Louisiana State University, she has continued her art education at the New Orleans Academy of Art. Since 1993, she has showed her work in New Orleans, Houston and the Mississippi and Florida Gulf Coast.
With a lifelong passion for art and a love of nature, her work began in 1981 painting flowers on large canvases. An appreciation and interest in abstract works began in 1996 after an extended stay in Santa Fe, NM. In her work she seeks an overall simplicity by building upon a many-layered surface. Organic forms of nature and the landscape in which she lives are her principal sources of inspiration. Her work has evolved over the years into decorative abstract works of a variety of media.