This body of work is a residue of the time I spent at the Vermont Studio Center; I was there for almost a month. To see rolling green hills reaching towards the bright blue the sky, the warmth of the sun brushing over the grass bringing out the gentle yellow in the color, the wind softly tossing the grass back and forth so the blue in grass was accessible as well. It was so beautiful; I was so inspired. I set up at different locations along the rivers so that I could get all the environment, trees, grass, water, sky and soil. I did timed gesture drawings, hour ½ in the morning, hour ½ in the evening, opposite days. After I returned home, I began a new body of work, I did not realize how much Vermont influenced me. Every painting these beautiful greens would show up, and I just allowed it to happen. In these paintings I hoped to create a horizontal and vertical view of nature, to be in it and above it simultaneously.