A landscape is this incredible space that gives us permission to exhale, to gasp, to become quiet in reverence and awe or with a sense of powerlessness and fear. Rhonda Gates is a painter, consumed with exploring, touching and observing nature.
The landscape serves as her visual language to examine the relationships between different elements from her experiences: ephemeral qualities of light; and the forces and energy of nature; trees and/or rocks or other elements interspersed within the scene. She then reduces her observations into quantified units, analyzing the human relationship to nature and the planet.