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My husband and I take at least one long driving trip per year. Driving provides the opportunity to embrace the environment your traveling over. This view is drawn from roadside along the way, overlooking a valley in Washington State.

Growing up in the rolling hills of Missouri, I've traveled to most states in the U.S. and painted along the way. I love being in nature and try to visit state parks along my travel routes. I work mostly in my studio, using field studies and photo references pulled from places I have visited. In creating these works, I sometimes embrace, sometimes abandon color theory while building an ever growing alphabet of marks that represent foliage, trees, buildings and the sky. I juxtapose these marks with textures, tones, and line to build a compressed space, create the illusion of great distances, and generate an energized surface crackling with potential. Purchase original artworks at www.michelefritz.com