KATE MCGEE PASTEL ARTIST
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 |