Maybe because I live in the city, I’m always venturing out in search of landscapes that pull me in. I’m drawn to the things that never stay still — weather gathering over a lake, wind laid flat through a field of grass, light skimming across water, a path disappearing into the dunes. Most of what I’m after is happening in the sky.

Working mainly in water-based oils on vintage linen, I often leave the weave bare so the cloth stays part of the picture. Each painting starts as an encounter with a place and ends up somewhere between what I saw and what I remember — a way of carrying something wild and open back into an ordinary day.

— L A U R A R E S S