My work embodies a yearning to derive optimal pleasure from natural surroundings. Harnessing the frenetic energy I feel all around, I capture the pulse of life in healing moments. Representing an inherent longing for more, my paintings reveal a compulsion to preserve what will be missed or forgotten.

The sounds, scents, feeling of the earth underfoot, wind, temperature, and my physical state, all inform my work beyond what I see with my eyes. I experience landscapes as planes of shape and color. My marks overlap and enmesh, in rhythm or in contrast, each being essential to the whole.

I incorporate earth pigment as if it were a recipe ingredient; hand mixing the paint feels like kneading dough and enhances my creation process. Emotive oil stick scribbles punctuate my reverence for the subject.

—Marlisa Dunn

The paintings of artist Marlisa Dunn have been exhibited in solo and group shows in museums, galleries, and art centers in the USA, including the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin, the Richard M. Ross Art Museum in Delaware, Ohio, the Springfield Museum of Art in Ohio, the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California, and the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.