![JoEllyn Loehr, Home Acre, oil](https://rentalsalesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Home-Acre-oil.jpg)
The places we love are embedded and embodied within us in memory, dream, and imagination. I am drawn to the geology and geography of the canyons, fields, woodlands, and waterways of the West.
I use painting processes similar to land formation – layering, liquefaction, scraping and scouring, erosion, consolidation, folding and faulting. Added to this are the material qualities of the paint – staining, transparency, and flow. Improvisation and gesture play a big role – opening doors to situations that either further the work or have to be dealt with analytically. This is the challenge of painting that keeps me interested and committed.
I never predict the result. It’s only by trusting the process, by toggling along the continuum of intuitive, gestural spontaneity and cold, hard analysis that I arrive at “a poetics of place” that suits my experience of landscape.
![JoEllyn Loehr, Klickitat, oil](https://rentalsalesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Klickitat-oil.jpg)
![JoEllyn Loehr, Willow Ranch, oil](https://rentalsalesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Willow-Ranch-oil.jpg)
![JoEllyn Loehr, Flyover, oil](https://rentalsalesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Flyover-oil.jpg)
![JoEllyn Loehr, Celilo II, oil](https://rentalsalesgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Celilo-II-oil.jpg)
To see these works in the flesh, please join us in the gallery, opening night for our New Artists Show.