Peggy Root

Peggy Root

These paintings represent some of my ongoing experiments in open-air painting. My canvases are painted outside on location, usually over the course of several weeks. I am not trying to provide a snapshot of appearances or a demonstration of virtuoso brushwork, but rather a meditation in paint on a particular place in a particular time and what it feels like.

I feel deeply privileged to have the opportunity to witness nature in all its moods and conditions. I also feel privileged to experience the rigorous and invigorating process of making an on-the-spot painting. I work quickly, moving around shapes and color, always striving to make a solid construction that most simply and elegantly states the significance of the scene. Because each year, each season and each day is so different from another, I am content to take what comes and consider it a gift.