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Urban Wild (Alewife Reservation)
paintings by Vicki Paret
gouache on paper, framed under glass, about 34" x 24" framed



Urban Wild: Enter
Entry to Alewife behind T
- yarrow, goldenrod,quaking aspen

Urban Wild: Merge
Beauty in invasives
- through artist's eyes

Urban Wild: Strata
Fields of phragmites
spread out before aspen

Although my paintings are realistic, the realism is subordinate to considerations of space and mood, and the interaction between the objects or the elements in the environment. Still, in the end, I find my subjects very beautiful - sometimes in odd, quirky ways; sometimes as expressions of the power of nature - and I am compelled to paint them in detail.
— Vicki Paret