Language and landscape

Margot Voorhies Thompson at Laura Russo Gallery, in a show that expressed her "lifelong obsession with the relationship between language and landscape."

"There is nothing more hypnotic to me than writing ... and painting."
— Margot Voorhies Thompson

The artist is a renowned calligrapher who has been returning her attention to the landscape, which she calls "calligraphy on a large scale." This painting reflects her early roots as a student potter. The pigments were collected from nature. She made her own colors from rocks, mushrooms, and similar materials, and worked with fluid paints on 300-lb. paper "that could be mutilated a lot."

All this I learned from attending an artist talk at the gallery — a highly recommended practice.