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My good friend and colleague boards her horse at the stables located here. One day, camera in hand, I visited her there and we wandered about the property. Pictured here is the lovely little creek that flows through the landscape.

After posting a picture of this work in progress on Facebook, some artist friends joked with me about putting a duck in the picture, which I felt added some interest, so I did it.

The next suggestion was an alligator going to eat it. As you can see, the gator didn't make the cut.

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