Blog #2-Art Talk Week: November10-17th 2024“The Importance of the Remembered Landscape”

Announcements: SCERA Gallery 101 Exhibition Reception. 

While finishing up a mini series for my first $100 and under show, I laughed when I finally came up with the name.  I chose:  “Golden.” After two trips to Moab, I went on a third trip with my family.  We hiked to “Delicate Arch” in Arches National Park.  When we got there I made some silly comment to my family about how beautiful the “Golden Arch” is.   They all laughed at me and I couldn’t figure out what was so funny.  My husband informed me that the “Golden Arch” is McDonald’s logo and this is the “Delicate Arch.”  After three trips to Arches you would think that I would know that.  It is one of my favorite places.  The arches and rocks are magnificent and everything looks like it is glowing.  On each of my trips, I found a rock shop and picked up several sets of rocks from my visit.

I chose to commemorate the “Golden” theme with the leifing and colors in the skies.  Then I applied the rocks I collected from my trips there.  It really does remind me of how I feel when I see the redrocks look like fire at sunset.  I hope if you haven’t been there these makes you want to go!

-Oil on wood, gold leif, rocks, and glue on wood

As for artists, I agree with Hoska when she expressed her belief that their role in society is to seek truth and, as they do so, to continually reflect on the question, “Why do I need to do this work?”  

And, more importantly, to ask themselves: Am I making the world a better place?

Lennox Woods--Color Stud

The Remembered Landscape

8/31/2020 8:36:52 PM

“As I have said, I work mostly from observation and memory. As we learn more about how memory actually works, we begin to understand that memory gives us a glimpse of our past but also reveals who we are now. First we must understand how memory is formed. A set of sensations—visual, auditory, tactile—are processed and stored first in short term memory and then if deemed significant, in long term memory. Each time we recall them, those sensations are reassembled by our brains from the various locations within the brain where they are stored. Each time the memory arrives in our consciousness it is slightly different from the time before, reflecting the importance, emphasis or responses that we now give it. So each memory is inextricably linked both to our past and present, to the wholeness of our time in the world. It is this meeting of then and now that I am after in my work.”

(Are Traditional Landscapes Passé? 12/14/2011 1:25:22 PM by Laura den Hertog)

“While I understand his concern, I believe that the traditional landscape can never be completely out of fashion. There may be trends in art that come and go, but the landscape well executed will always find an audience. Even the most fashionable trendy art collectors will find themselves moved by a gorgeous vista viewed from an SUV on the highway. Even staunch urbanites do occasionally look up and catch their breath at the sight of a glorious cloud display in the sky.”

Have you felt connected to a particular landscape painting or landscape painter at some point in your life? Please share!!!