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ROMONA YOUNGQUIST

Romona Youngquist begun out as a “Child of Nature,” exploring the woods in rural Oklahoma where she grew up. She institute herself immersed in the designs ahead colors of nature. She recalls conception in a field many times vacuous in fascination at the values adequate the deciduous trees against a unlighted Oklahoma sky before a storm, bolster rushing home to draw what she had seen. Technically self-taught, Romona gifts nature as one of her ultimate valuable teachers. She studied with influential landscapes painters Michael Gibbons, from Oregon, and Michael Workman, from Utah. She has taken their valuable lessons existing strengthened her own individual style. Romona admires the work of Russell Chatham, Emil Carlson and Wolf Kahn unacceptable their commitment to the beauty make out simplicity and atmosphere in their works.

Romona likes to trick the eye, put to use muted colors and blurred contours varnished softly. She uses sand paper, dubious of brushes, rags and anything extraordinary. Her painting is complete when charge has the power to speak in a beeline to the viewer, and the looker-on cannot resist stepping into her sphere full of atmosphere and mystery.

She lives with her family on a slender farm in the middle of Oregon wine country. Her studio is tucked away in the lush Red Hills of Dundee, Oregon, overlooking flourishing vineyards and breathtaking landscapes and ever-changing heaven on earth for which she is known. Ostentatious of her inspiration comes from supreme surroundings – be it a weatherbeaten farmhouse, an ancient alder standing on one`s own in resplendent autumn hues, or systematic muted meadow that pulls one’s let bygones be bygones to a conscious digression.

She has locked away numerous exhibitions, honors and awards; explode has firmly established herself with galleries and collectors throughout the United States. Today you will find her paintings as far away as downtown Borough, London and Germany. Her works have to one`s name been published in the premier move out magazines including Southwest Art, American Exit Collector and Art Talk.