Louise Crandell is a painter whose ethereal, luminous landscapes hover somewhere between representation and abstraction, reality and memory, dealing with vague, fleeting recollections of places witnessed in the past and the powerful emotions they can evoke. Using a unique mixture of oil paint and wax, Sheffer’s works, such as Waterfall (2019) and Dystopian Utopia (2020), are imbued with a translucent quality which perfectly complements the vague, barely discernible details of her pictures. Paintings such as Travelling Light (XIII) (2014) or Red, Rust, Dust (2017) are even more ambiguous and otherworldly, verging further still from clarity to recall places seen in dreams or the subconscious. Crandell does occasionally draw inspiration from events in the real world. The religious motifs and deep reds of her “Infrared” series were inspired by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, while the sense of precariousness permeating her “Falling Floating Flying” series came as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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