Welcome to my website.  My name is Mongina Cole or friends call me Gina.   I am Thai, a painter and an MRI Technologist at the VA hospital.  I first picked up  a paintbrush after finishing college and found myself looking for some other kind of passion to enrich my life.  I am a self-taught artist.  I do not pursue the likeness in my paintings but rather to capture the essence and create the connection with the subject I am working on.  I am also a volunteer artist at the VA hospital providing free art classes for our veterans.  If you are a veteran, contact me to find out how you can join our art class program at our local VA in Boise.  

My favourite mediums is oil but I also work with acrylics, pastels, ink, charcoal, and graphite. I believe that working in a single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. Each idea manifests in its own individual style.

I enjoy painting people and animals focusing on capturing their spirits.  I do not pursue the likeness in my paintings but rather to capture the essence and create the connection with the subject I am working on.