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Studio Information Victoria Adams is a contemporary landscape painter working in oil and wax on linen. She finds inspiration for her primary subject matter—the sky, the land, and deep atmospheric space—in the weather and views of the Pacific Northwest, where she lives and works on an island in Puget Sound near Seattle, Washington. Adams' work has been exhibited widely and is included in private and public collections nationwide.  2006 · Aqueous Edge #2 · Oil and wax on linen · 36 x 48 I use elements from that tradition, recombining and exaggerating them in the paintings. But the correspondence between that tradition and the real landscape we inhabit—much of it now destroyed—will never be the same as it was for past painters in that tradition. Through my work I hope for the effect of an elegy for nature—elegy both as a lament for a tragic loss, but also as a reaffirmation of the importance of viewing landscape as an essential human need. With the destruction of the "natural" landscape, landscape painting can provide a venue for exercising our innate need to connect with nature. |
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