Forever fascinated by the American West and stories of western expansion, painter Kathryn Stedham feels an urgency to portray these quickly vanishing landscapes. Though she was originally trained as an academic realist, Stedham now paints in a gestural alla prima—or wet-on-wet—style in which she applies all of the paint to the canvas in essentially one sitting. In her words, “[t]his approach combines representational landscape forms with an expressionistic modernist sensibility.”

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