Napa Hills 2015

Terri Kelly Moyers made "Napa Hills" with visible brushstrokes in a way that catches the light. It makes me think of other landscape painters, like Cezanne, how they worked outdoors, trying to capture the light and the space. There's something about the repetitive rows that I like, you know, how they recede into the distance. I can imagine Moyers setting up her easel right there, squinting at the scene, trying to get the colors just right. It is a tricky thing because the colors change so fast. See how she varies the greens and browns, making the scene come alive, but not in a photographic way, more like how it feels to be in a vineyard on a sunny day. It is a real painterly problem, to get those greens, and its one I've struggled with myself. I wonder if she was looking at Wolf Kahn, or maybe even Fairfield Porter? It is all one big conversation, this painting thing.