About the Artist

Ms. Bergstrom, who was raised in a desert community south of Palm Springs has focused on painting palm trees since 1974. While she became well known among watercolorists for her close-up abstract views of these trees, recently she has been painting whole trees on large linen canvas using oil paint.

Her watercolor paintings have received awards in more than half of the many national competitions in which they have been exhibited. Although she is not currently entering competitions, her paintings may always be seen at A Gallery Fine Art, 73-956 El Paseo Drive, Palm Desert, California.

Edith Bergstrom
Edith Bergstrom






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Personal Statement

The palm tree has a great deal to teach us about our own lives. It inculcates qualities of beauty, usefulness, gentleness, resiliency, toughness, patience, vigor, disciplined growth, etc. My work as an artist can be seen as an exploration into similar qualities. Such qualities must be employed to produce a successful painting.

A good painting and the quality of one’s life have a lot in common. They are both ordered thought and meaningful relationships. In painting I am balancing line, shape, color, value, rhythm, and texture. In one’s life, relationships must be ordered and made to work together. Each individual is an artist who paints his life by the choices he or she makes, and the thoughts he/she accepts or rejects as true in his/her experience. These choices determine the quality and the harmony or discord in each unique life “picture”.


Edith Bergstrom




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