"In the Search" Painting

Redin Winter is a visual artist based in San Diego, California, whose work explores interior landscapes shaped by embodiment, memory, and emotional resonance. Her practice emerges from a multidisciplinary background spanning performance, scholarship, and lived experience, bringing a depth of inquiry to the painted surface.

Winter did not arrive at painting through a traditional visual arts trajectory. She spent her early career in theater—working as a performer, running a performing arts center, and later signing with Wilhelmina Models—living between stages, studios, and photo sets. Visual art entered her life quietly, through intimate experimentation with paint during her college years, functioning as a private ritual rather than a public pursuit.

She earned a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California San Diego, with research focused on embodiment, theatre history, and psychology. After years of adjunct teaching, Winter felt called back to making and working with her hands in the way she once built theatrical worlds. When she returned to painting, she did so with daily devotion and without agenda, discovering the studio as a site of presence, listening, and repair.

Winter has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work held in private collections across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. She is a resident artist at The Studio Door in San Diego and has been featured in print, online publications, and television.

Artist Statement
My work explores the interior landscape focusing on how emotion, memory, and perception shape our understanding of self and others. Working through abstraction and gesture, I approach painting as a process of inquiry, using the physical act of mark-making to investigate the relationship between thought, feeling, and embodiment.

Rather than illustrating specific narratives, the paintings create spaces where sensation and reflection can unfold. Layers of color, movement, and erasure mirror the complexity of emotional experience and the ways we process it over time.

At its core, my practice is about connection. Each work begins as a personal investigation into the rhythms of inner life, but it is completed through the viewer—when someone recognizes something of their own emotional landscape within the work.