About the Artist :: Emily Leonard Trenholm

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Emily Leonard Trenholm is inspired by shapes and color relationships occurring naturally in the landscape and paints on location, year round. Growing up in Yarmouth, Maine, the New England landscape directly and significantly influences her work. Emily graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2005 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting. In May 2011, Emily completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Boston University, where she studied with John Walker, Dana Frankfort, Richard Ryan, Harold Reddicliffe and Richard Raiselis.

Emily says of her process, “Working as a perceptual painter, my compositions filter the world around me. I paint on location in an attempt to capture elements of physical and visual space. I am inspired by moments where the landscape becomes woven through light and shadow, active and inactive shape. Quilting has become a visual exercise for my painting. By placing and arranging color and light, I work to construct a painting in the way I would build a quilt. I hope to speak to the viewer about the act of looking and our visual connection to the physical world.”