“All of my paintings are primarily internal landscapes. I start with some image, scene, or detail that speaks to me and paint it in some way, color that seems to be right. I like to start with the literal so that I don’t get stylized or make the same image repeatedly…. I paint and change until I capture something that surprises me, feels emotionally and visually ‘right,’ often it has changed dramatically from the original vision.”

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– Astrid Preston