Blue Skies Painting

Blue Skies suggests bright crystal atmosphere and the warmth of one thousand suns. Reductive mark-making and tiny bits of red create an emerging light from within the painting. While I was in Vermont the little white orb in the sky would fill the corner of my Vermont studio with heat and light from the window facing the street. Kale Baker’s Vermont Series speaks to the emotional responses of experiencing a new place. These works evoke light, landscape and wonder. Through the act of looking Baker’s paintings capture moments of Vermont’s aura, while at the same time project a sense of interior reflection through color and mark making. Vermont in November boasted winter skies filled with pink cascades of warm and icy pastels. The rest of the landscape was cold and white except for the incredible array of brightly painted homes, complete with visible lapses of repair and changing tastes. Baker aimed to create these brilliant jewels of color to capture the personality of both the people and the landscape she experienced at the residency. This painting includes hanging wire attached to back This painting is signed and dated on the back.