Redin Winter

Each painting emerges from the threshold between light and shadow, motion and stillness. The artworks are a visual landscape shaped by the contours of our inner worlds. My process begins in emotion, translating the intangible currents of being into form. What unfolds on the surface is not a depiction of the external, but an excavation of what we hold within: longing, fear, strength, wonder, and the spaces between.
I didn’t grow up dreaming of being a painter.
I wanted to be a star—dancing, acting, performing my way through life with a kind of defiant light. For a while, I did just that: working in theater, running a performing arts center, even signing with Top International Modeling Agency Wilhelmina Models and living between stages, studios, and photo sets.

Visual art came to me later, and almost by accident.
My college roommate was a painter—occasional nights spent listening to Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Annie Lennox, Nine Inch Nails, and experimenting with color and line in the margins of our lives. I made art as a whisper, not a shout—something I sporadically returned to every so often like a secret ritual.

Eventually, I followed my academic passions into a doctorate in Performance Studies. I studied embodiment, theatre histo...

Doctorate of Philosophy, Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego 2017.
Master of Arts, San Diego State University, Drama and Film, 2011.
Bachelor of Arts, Drama, Seattle University,1998.

Painting Instruction: Kate Ari Ashton, Kristen Ide, Elizabeth Young
Drawing Instruction: Prima Materia Institute
Stage Design and Craft: Carol Wolfe Clay

2025, Studio Artists: Past and Present, The Studio Door, San Diego, California

2025, Fresh Artworks II, The Studio Door, San Diego, California

2023, Elevated / The Studio Door - San Diego, United States

2023, SA Takeover / The Studio Door - San Diego, United States

2023, Works of Excellence, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.

2023, Aqua, Emporium Gallery, Canada.
2022, "Contemporary Abstraction, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
2022, "Women in Art, 2022." Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach.
2021, “Spring Forward” Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Rhode Island
2021 “Elevate” Webster Arts, St. Louis, MS.
2021 “6th Annual Landscapes” Fusion Art, Palm Springs, California.
2020 “Mixed Media Madness”, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2020 "The Many Faces of Red", Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2020 “TAP”, Art on 30th, San Diego, California.
2019, "Reflections of an Abstract Duet", Redin Winter & Victoria Evans, Ashton Gallery, San Diego.
2019 Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2019 "Gallery in the Street", Festival of the Arts, San Diego, California.
2019 Art on 30th, San Diego, California.
2019 “The Color of Love”, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2018 C-Note, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, C...