Lisa Kronenburg

Certain landscapes, relationships of light, space and colour, have a deep significance for me. Even as a small child growing up in the mid-western United States (New Mexico, Texas and Kansas) I was aware of the light, movements, sounds and spaces of the places in which we lived. But mostly it was a sense of recognition, that it was somehow part of me – an extension of myself. This feeling was both reassuring and frightening. I have therefore always wondered and worried about scale and distance. Something bigger than my comprehension or understanding, but always present, always there. This continuing sensitivity to landscape is at the core of all my work.

Most of my landscape paintings are of vast, panoramic, empty places with an ambiguous sense of scale and, also sometimes, of subject matter. For example, is it water or earth that is represented? While my paintings mostly conform to the traditional landscape composition of horizon line, ground and sky, it is the process of painting that allows me to create, imagine and inhabit a more abstract sense of place - the mood and emotion of air, light, land and water from a distance… far away.