Light Breaking Through by Kathleen Hudson

The landscape has always been my source of artistic inspiration. I love to capture sweeping views of rugged terrain, shimmering waves, and dramatic atmospherics. According to my family, I began painting as soon as I was old enough to hold a brush. Oils became my favored medium during middle school, when I painstakingly copied several of John Singer Sargent's works. 

I try to evoke that same childhood sense of wonder in my landscapes. My paintings represent specific places and moments in time: the brief point during sunrise when the sun fills the air with an ethereal golden glow; a break in a storm where light pierces through heavy clouds; or the sight of glacial runoff sending waterfalls down the side of a mountain wreathed in fog.

A mountain becomes more when you stand beneath it and watch sunlight dance across its slopes’ jagged contours. You listen to the wind whistle overhead as it enters rock crevices and rushes downward; moments later, you feel its breath across your face. The same atmospheric forces that make the mountain arrestingly beautiful becomes the visual drama that awakens something within you, filling you with wonder and longing. 

When I envision a new painting, I focus on points of shifting light and atmosphere in the scene. To me, these are the sources of a landscape's beauty: the things that make us stop and look before continuing on our way.

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