Memories of landscape

"Granite in Spring" (painting) by Kathline Carr, in 29 her show “In Awe of Nature,’’ through May 29, at Fountain Street Fine Art, Boston. She lives in The Berkshires.

She tells the Gallery:

“I love hiking, particularly in wild, desolate places, and am fascinated by looking at the way light falls on the landscape when I am out on the trail, creating shapes that are craggy, or geometrical, or diffused—or shifting from one to the other. Sometimes I look at the sky or a mountain pass and try to remember the individual parts of the scene for later, when I will imagine the parts rearranged, the lights and darks reversed, or perhaps just one form that caught my eye. My dream travels take me to treks in Tibet, Alaska, Wyoming—I look at pictures of the landscapes in the places I’d like to go, and those images work their way into what I’m making as well. I am in awe of nature and the colors that exist and arise organically and atmospherically. Although I’m not painting the landscape representationally, my observations and memory of it is ever-present in my work, in some form.’’

A view of The Berkshires in North Adams, Mass.

— Photo by jbcurio