Victoria Veedell is an artist known for her atmospheric landscape paintings that explore the emotional memory of place. Her work captures fleeting moments in nature, contemplative experiences that offer a sense of calm in a fast-paced world. Her paintings invite stillness and reflection, serving as subtle acts of resistance and reminders of our deep, symbiotic relationship with the natural world.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Triton Museum (CA), Maturango Museum (CA), Aerena Galleries (CA), Chico Art Center (CA), James Baird Gallery (Canada), and Sakai Museum (Japan).

Veedell has been awarded numerous artist residencies, including at Cycladic Arts (Greece), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA), Pouch Cove Foundation (Canada), Chalk Hill (CA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), Gullkistan (Iceland), KulttuuriKauppila (Finland), Kamiyama AIR (Japan), and Chitraniketan (India).
Her paintings are in many private and corporate collections, including the City of Kamiyama (Japan), Adobe Systems (CA), Northwestern Mutual (GA), and Sutter Health (CA).

Born in Houston, TX, Veedell earned her BFA from Texas A&M–Corpus Christi, studied in France at L’Ecole Albert Defois, and continued graduate painting studies at NYU. She worked in New York galleries before moving to Tokyo, and eventually made San Francisco her home in 2003.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Places have a memory, a history, a feeling that we connect with. These memories, like faint echoes, are revealed as light moves across the landscape, transforming the color and texture of a place. It is these moments and experiences that I capture in my atmospheric landscape paintings.

My fascination with the landscape stems more from an interest in exploring our primal connection to the land rather than a focus purely on the aesthetics of a place. My paintings trace the effect light has on a location, how it leaves its mark on the landscape, how it illuminates the essence of nature--creating different moods, transforming a scene, drawing us in, focusing our gaze, changing the temperature physically and emotionally, and capturing movement. Combined, these elements relay the feeling and memories of a place. My paintings are a snapshot of a particular moment in time. Recording these moments is an act of resistance documenting places that are threatened by increased urbanization and catastrophic climate change. They are a call to preserve these places and a reminder of the important symbiotic relationship that we have with nature.

Travel is an integral part of my process. Participating in artist residencies around the world--Japan, India, Finland, and Iceland--allows me to explore different landscapes and record the dramatic shifts in light and color in various geographic locations. During long walks, I immerse myself in the feel and texture of a place recording my observations in photographs and small studies. These studies become the basis for my series.

Ultimately my work is about chronicling timeless moments in nature where we feel a sense of serenity and a connection to the land.