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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.
