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Mount Philo, on the shores of Lake Champlain just South of Burlington, Vermont, offers a spectacular view of the Adirondack mountains. The higher viewpoint of mountains and lake inspires in me a higher viewpoint of the interconnected nature of all things. In John Muir's words, "When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

Amanda Amend captures the mystery behind the everyday in luminous watercolor. Often described as atmospheric and ethereal, the subtle qualities of her work are balanced by a powerful, disciplined use of color, values, and compositional choices that reflect unique perspectives. The artist recently discovered her passion for watercolor, and she is largely self-taught. Her educational background is in music and linguistics rather than in studio arts, however those disciplines have given her the analytical and practice-oriented frameworks from which to master watercolor's difficult techniques. Further, the structures of language and music provide a conceptual basis for understanding visual composition, and these careers have taken her...