Judith Kunzlé is the featured artist at Benicia Plein Air Gallery from August 8 to September 1 with her exhibit “Land and See," a lively set of watercolors and ink drawings that celebrate the landscape as a moving thing. The community is invited to the artist’s reception on Saturday, August 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. As a special treat, several Benicia Tuesday Poets will be presenting poems they've created inspired by Judith's paintings during the reception.

“Land and See” is about seeing, drawing and painting the land en plein air (in the open air.) Judith loves the outdoors and especially mountains. She walks and hikes with her painting backpack and stops when a scene becomes her subject. She does not know what the painting will “look” like until she’s done, because the act of painting is for her an ongoing interaction with the landscape she’s in.

For Judith the landscape is a living thing, not only in the plants and animals that live on it, but the forms of the land, its tensions, the curves and sways of its topography. Judith’s quest is to see the land in the balance and play of form, texture, light and color. From the slopes of Mt. Diablo to the spiky curves of an agave, she aims to see the body language, dance and harmony.

Judith has travelled far since her first home in Switzerland. From Chile to China, from New Zealand to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, she has always been an artist. But her favorite place of all is her new home, Walnut Creek. Learn more about Judith Kunzlé at www.JudithKunzleArt.com.

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