Landscape Painting by Anna Pales - Lanning Gallery [Sedona]

"Untitled #594"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
60" x 36"

"I am a painter. I believe art is the most forceful and clear way to communicate."

The elegant and utterly unique paintings of artist Anna Pales is a result of painstaking development of both style and technique. Pales creates Contemporary landscapes and still lifes painted in acrylic on panel then built up with rich layerings of resin, giving each a high-gloss finish. At times, she paints with powdered gold-leaf to further heighten the other-worldliness of her images.

Pales, from an early age, found it fascinating that man has always surrounded himself with art. "I soon discovered that art became a way to express myself," she recalls. Pales's artistic career began impressively with a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, which she attended while simultaneously attending the University of Chicago. Initially, her outlets were sculptures and oil paintings - florals, still lifes, seascapes and landscapes - but, as her experience grew so did her ability to define her artistic expression through the development of her current singular approach to the mediums she uses. Added dimension was her sought for, and achieved, result.

Experiencing firsthand this power of art to communicate for her so thoroughly, Pales did the only logical thing: She single-handedly founded the "Expression through Art" division of the "Artist in Residence Program" in Chicago's public and private schools, thereby fostering successful expression through art of countless others.

Today, Pales is lucky to live where a large portion of her home can be devoted to a studio - at any hour of the day or night, she can be found painting. Generally, she works on one piece at a time, taking from a week to two months to complete each. Her artistic goal, always, is to "portray nature's endless beauty through its simplicity, whether expressed through a single piece of fruit or a rolling landscape."

"Untitled #588"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
36" x 20"

Within Pales is an earnest love and appreciation of nature. It is a fascination that began early, on road trips as a child with her family, and continued through road trips as an adult with her own family, watching the trees zip by her car windows – thinking they seemed so similar, and yet knowing too that they each seem to have individual personalities. Now these trees are immortalized by Pales in Contemporary paintings that capture equally a reality of the land and of the mind. Whether her images are rooted in still life form or landscape, they frequently defy categorization as either or both. Pales's images provoke thought and challenge viewers to define their reality.

Pales has had numerous group and individual shows nationwide; her work has been exhibited in museums; and her innovative paintings have been recognized not only throughout the United States but in Great Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.

"Untitled #589"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
36" x 20"

"Untitled #598" - Tree Landscapes by Anna Pales

"Untitled #598"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
45" x 45"

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"Untitled #595"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
36" x 36"

"Untitled #626"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
32" x 24"

"Untitled #627"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
32" x 24"

"Untitled #592"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
32" x 24"

"Untitled #590"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
30" x 79"

"Untitled #597"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
36" x 36"

"Untitled #593"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
32" x 48"

"Untitled #587"
Mixed Media on Panel Painting
24" x 35"

Artist's prices beginning at $3,900.

"Untitled #635"
Mixed Media on Canvas Painting
16" x 12"

"Untitled #636"
Mixed Media on Canvas Painting
16" x 12"

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