Westward Wants Painting

Westward Wants suggests light through a warm yellow ground. Opaque washes of blue and green contrast against the under-layers creating a sense of internal light. While I was at the the Vermont Studio Center I made frequent trips to the on campus library. I found myself somewhat infatuated with Richard Diebenkorn’s Albuquerque series, which influenced some of my works. 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 work includes hanging wire attached to back This painting is signed and dated on the back.