Different Views - 6 Landscape Artists in 6 Different Mediums

Maggie Siegel

This could be an adventure!". Oil on canvas, 30" x 50". The body of work that I'm putting together is based around remembering where we used to play as kids. My dad would take us on what he called "horror hikes", which always began on this hilltop lined with trees. He'd tell us to pick a direction + we'd hop into the woods + see where we'd end up. This piece is kind of an homage to that moment of setting out.... he would always say to us "this could be an adventure!".

Janet McKenzie

The landscapes by Janet McKenzie are a little known aspect of her work. McKenzie is best known for her controversial portrait "Jesus of the People". She was also an "Art of Action-Shaping Vermont's Future Through Art" artist. Her book , "Holiness and the Feminine Spirit - The Paintings of Janet McKenzie" continues to earn awards and nationwide attention. Later this month a 4 month solo show of her work will begin at The Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Creator of the controversial and well-known dark interpretation of Christ, Jesus of the People, she lives and works in Vermont. Janet says "I am not interested in the traditional and familiar Vermont landscape, as usually depicted. I go outside to paint landscape to purify myself, like washing my soul with only the openness of heaven overhead."

Byron Geigel

I prefer to paint only the wilderness, devoid of humans.

For me landscape undulates with life and I react ... motion translated into paint.

Guitta Corey

... the fibers, long and root-like, inclusions of leaf or bark, colors that modulate like sunlight through trees. ... I imagine a collaboration of sorts between myself, and those artists/craftsmen in distant lands who have looked out on their world and responded by making the individual sheets of paper. With those papers I create a chance for others to remember a place they have been or a place they would like to be, an invitation to look at the world more closely.

Bob Rickard

Although some of my work can be read as landscapes, I most enjoy creating pieces which are more abstract and can be viewed in different ways. I am drawn to earth forms as viewed from above. River's Edge, for instance, can be view literally as a river with steep slopes on one side and eroded slopes on the other. But it also works well as an abstract pattern if the viewer does not see it as a landscape. Inspiration for this type of form is all around me here in the Southwest. We have mesas, plateaus and other table lands, as well as deep canyons such as the Grand Canyon and our local Taos Gorge. Although the river surface in River's Edge is burnished aluminum, this is a mixed media piece, as the layers above the river are formed from a non-metallic material.

Wen Redmond

Fiber Art with occasional holographic imagery: Making art is like a meditation. I put that energy into my creations:

Later, viewing a piece, revisit that feeling;
Like reading a poem or familiar story.
It brings you back