Land of the Roses
An Active Search for Joy Through Art
As an artist, Trish Land was used to capturing the ephemera of natural landscapes: radiant cyan sunsets or moody thunderstorms embellished with drips of sage. “When I look at something, I see its energy,” she says. “I try and capture the essence of the moment, what it feels like.” Before March 2020, Land had never painted a rose. However, out of compassion for others during Covid 19, both bodies of her rose-inspired work celebrated in The UnVacantLot, came to fruition.
Her Renaissance work, merges old world art with her love of roses, while her rose varieties hold a special connection to family and Thomasville. Land is a self-taught artist, and has been a storyteller all of her life. She is spirit driven.always inspired, and always creating.
“I don’t paint from photographs,” she says. “I paint from memory.” For impressionist painters, it’s all about the moment – the cloud above your head that will disappear in an instant or the way the sunlight coats the side of a tree. Her spiritual viewpoint, one that consists of being compassionate and open, aligns perfectly with her artist philosophy.”
