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From Ann B. Rhodes:
“I have related to the land all my life, and I have
painted it. For me, nature is a timeless subject, an earthly paradise—which
we either tend or neglect or pave. What I want to evoke in my
landscapes is the intensity of nature’s force, its power
to recharge the physical environment, season after season, recycling
abundant growth throughout the centuries.
I’ve been told that the wind is always blowing
in my paintings. I hope that wind is the breath of the spirit.
I am fed by nature’s light and color, comforted by its underlying
geometry, awed by its muscularity and insistence on living large.
Ann Rhodes’ landscapes are primed with red underpainting,
reminiscent of native Georgia red clay. Her colors reflect
the wattage of flaming sunflowers or plush rows of lavender or the
muted blossoms of flowering apple trees against their bright trunks.
Paintings of the land are specific to her travels and observations
at home and abroad in Italy and France.
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