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Kate McGee Pastel Artist 

Pastel Paintings

My pastel landscape paintings explore how light describes space. It surprised me to discover that they are the continuation of my career as a landscape architect. At first I thought it was old fashioned to do landscape painting but no longer. It is far too satisfying and juicy. I push the space back with cool purples and draw it forward with fiery reds and oranges. I persist until the paintings glow as if they are back lit.

Currently, I am intrigued by the hedgerows of the Willamette Valley; the tension between the overlapping, looping blackberries, wild roses, redtwig dogwoods and hawthorns and the adjacent grasslands; the contrast between rows of a poplar woodland and roving heaps of uncontrolled blackberries. I compose continually, adjusting mountains, trees and shrubbery to create a place that resounds with me. I reconfigure, recolor and distill what is before me to paint its radiant essence.

Coming Up

October, 2008  Solo Show in Members Gallery, DIVA, Eugene, OR

Group Exhibitions

February, 2008 
Art by Architects
DIVA
Eugene, OR
May, 2008
Emerald Spring Exhibition
Juried National Exhibition
Vista Award
Emerald Art Center,
Springfield, OR