In “Snowy Peaks above Tioga Pass, Yosemite” (2009), she turns mountain and sky into ocean storm. We sense in these landscapes not a painter stationed before her subject but a traveler lashed to the mast amid high seas.
—Mr. Esplund writes about art for the Wall Street Journal.
The rugged mountains, desert and wild lands of Southern California are mirrored in Jane Culp’s paint handling, and even in her approach to paper and canvas. “When working outside in the desert, with its overpowering winds and relentless sun,” the landscape painter writes, “I strap my easel to my legs…. When I work a watercolor, it is [held to] the ground with either my knees or my feet.”
The Wall Street Journal Greater New York Gallery Column 7/24/2010
Jane Culp: Wilderness Work 2010
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“Something in your work which I can not identify not only speaks to me but encourages me. I am drawn into the tension in your landscapes but even the storms make me feel at peace.”
Environmental author Barry Lopez (Arctic Dreams)
