“Garden Island Diptych” by Sara Katz

My landscape paintings are often inspired by a sense of the landscape passing by as the viewer travels, resulting in images of roads, bridges and the streaking scenes on the edges of highways. These subjects let me paint in a style that I enjoy the most–loose and active. I try to achieve a paint quality that suggests a fleeting memory, and use bold colors to turn the desolate or banal into a pleasantly nostalgic moment.

Sara Katz grew up in Cabot, Vermont on a vegetable farm/greenhouse and nursery and has been drawing and making things since she was very young. Katz lives and paints in North Ferrisburgh. She has worked for Burlington City Arts since 1999, and currently serves as Assistant Director.