Corina Linden

Artist Statement

I am interested in the power of landscape to renew and connect us. I work en plein air as often as possible to refresh this vision and to connect with the community that loves and shares these spaces. I approach my still-life work with that sense of mindfulness and wonder.
My work centers on the spaces where we find meaning, strength, peace, and joy. When I was growing up in the Sonoran Desert, I always found the greatest peace down wild mountain trails, among the brush and boulders and wide, distant vistas. For the last three decades, it has been the verdant lushness of the Pacific Northwest that has been my inspiration.
Sometimes it is the solitude and expanse that restore us, and sometimes it is the beauty we find in the community around us. One of my greatest joys in painting en plein air is the stranger who approaches my easel and the story they tell me about the meaning and beauty this place, this park, this trail, holds for them. Each story is another filament that connects us through these shared spaces. For me, art is about beauty and truth, and is it also about connection, a feeling or thought conveyed directly from one mind to another. Like reading a great poem from another age, or greeting an old friend, viewing a piece of art can give us the joy of recognition and shared meaning. These experiences restore us.