Virginia (Gini) Monsell, is an oil-painter and designer living and working in Portland Maine. She is inspired by dreams, trauma, pain, womanhood, magic, mystery, and death. Her work explores the tension and unity between light and dark, beauty and decay, life and death, hope and despair.

She has always considered herself as an outsider and believes art to be beneficial in numerous ways including therapeutic healing, helping connect with others, and reminding us that there are many different and completely valid ways to be in the world.