Shanna Kunz

Forging a Visual Connection

Episode 55


Episode length: 1 hour, 6 minutes



Shanna Kunz is a contemporary landscape painter whose work is a conscious play of mood, light and color. As a naturalist raised and rooted in the diverse landscapes of western America, a painting takes on deeper meaning for her. Each location is an encounter of spirit with the land, the trees, and the waters that have always given her a sense of connection and order.

When a location intrigues and inspires her, she paints the scene into a series using a range of keys or themes, experimenting and searching to learn more about the natural threads that tie the landscape together with complexity, subtlety and more importantly balance. Shanna looks for new ways to express spatial relationships and distance with layers of paint, brushwork, gradations, and diffusions of light.

Shanna says that hopefully her study of the landscape will bring her somewhat closer to an honest translation of both soul and land. To that end she pushes color and value into new compositions and continues a lifelong effort to communicate the emotional connection she feels with the environment. Indeed when you view her paintings you sense the serene, contemplative quietness and solitude of the landscape. Between you and the landscape she paints, Shanna Kunz is actively forging a visual connection.


 

Shanna Kunz

 

Hopefully, my study of the landscape will bring me somewhat closer to an honest translation of both soul and land as I push color and value into new compositions and continue a lifelong effort to communicate the emotional connection I feel with my environment.
— Shanna Kunz


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Links:

Shanna Kunz

Website: https://www.shannakunz.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannakunz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shanna.allen.kunz.hernandez

Inspired to Paint (with Elizabeth Robbins): https://inspiredtopaint.com



Carl Olson

Artist, photographer, filmmaker, and podcaster.

http://theartfulpainter.com
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