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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes
Jane Culp's muscular paintings and drawings make palpable the rush
she feels when on location interacting with nature. From her
modernist perspective she conveys a powerful sense of the moment
using surface tension and movement. "I'm interested in the life and
language of form", she explains. "How form talks as it goes into
space, how light and distance swallow and selectively magnify the
forms, how a rhythmic movement in space releases forms that change
direction, split, bulge, and fall back into space". Working in
harsh weather conditions that force her to strap her easel to her
knees, Culp explores wilderness terrain along the spine of the
Sierra Nevada, transporting viewers from her home base north of the
Anza-Borrego Desert, through Joshua Tree and Death Valley national
parks, up to Tioga Pass, and into Yosemite Valley.
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