About: Artist Jane Bloodgood Abrams

I am constantly inspired by the unique light and landscape of river valleys. What excites me most in nature are the deeply profound moments, where there is a connection with a higher energy and one feels alive. My paintings are a response to those moments, an attempt to recreate the heightened visual and emotional drama.

In these works I seek to transcend the landscape as mere subject matter, and use it as a tool to illustrate nature's spiritual or emotional essence. In some pieces I use the composition or presentation of the image to further convey an iconographic quality and inspire the idea that celebrating the landscape or these moments could be a form of worship.

These paintings have progressively become less about documenting a particular place, and more about expressing a particular emotional memory of the landscape. While caught in these fleeting moments, stopped along a road at sunset or standing on a bluff above the river, I feel infused by that moment. Allowing it to soak in as much as possible, and later, after some tempering and distillation through my own psyche, I use that memory to create an image which I hope will inspire viewers and invoke remembrances of their own experiences of nature's most moving and dramatic moments.

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