{"title":"Victoria Veedell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/victoria-veedell\/victoria-veedell-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria 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.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eHer 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).\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eVeedell 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).\r\u003cbr\u003eHer paintings are in many private and corporate collections, including the City of Kamiyama (Japan), Adobe Systems (CA), Northwestern Mutual (GA), and Sutter Health (CA).\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Houston, TX, Veedell earned her BFA from Texas A\u0026amp;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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaces 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. \r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eMy 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. \r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eTravel 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. \r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eUltimately my work is about chronicling timeless moments in nature where we feel a sense of serenity and a connection to the land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"late-afternoon-light","title":"Late Afternoon Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e20x20x1.50\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria Veedell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44401509466215,"sku":null,"price":1715.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1786499421_21958.jpg?v=1786500202"},{"product_id":"in-my-dream","title":"In My Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e48x24x1.50\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn My Dream explores the emotional intensity of sunset, when the landscape begins to dissolve into color and memory. Inspired by countless evenings spent watching the last light reflect across rivers and marshes, this painting pushes the natural colors of twilight beyond observation and into imagination. The glowing sky and mirrored reflections evoke a place that feels both familiar and dreamlike—a landscape that exists somewhere between memory and emotion.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eRich violets, deep blues, luminous golds, and vibrant pinks create a heightened color palette that blurs the distinction between sky, water, and land. Soft, layered applications of oil paint diffuse the edges of the silhouetted tree line, allowing the landscape to shimmer and recede. Light appears to emanate from within the painting, while the reflections create a quiet symmetry that draws the viewer toward the distant horizon.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eSunsets have become an ongoing exploration in my work because they transform the familiar into something extraordinary. As daylight fades, the landscape becomes less about physical description and more about feeling. In In My Dream, I wanted to create a painting that invites viewers to linger in that in-between space where memory, imagination, and nature overlap. 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