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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My paintings come from a lifetime of living and walking in the Pacific Northwest. Even though the paintings originate from a specific site, my wish is to transcend place and to address the interrelationship of nature and civilization.
The paintings develop slowly, often taking more than a year to complete. I begin by playing with color at the edges of the canvas and then move inward allowing the image to emerge though a complex layering of color, continually deciding what to keep and what to paint out.
I find solace in the space created within the painted landscape. I spend as much effort developing the open areas as the identifiable objects in the painting. My intent is that the air be as full and substantive as the land.
Kathryn Altus
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