Laurie Winthers creates a quiet, yet individual landscape view, that teems with delicacy and a bold color pallet. Her work with paintings on Bristol board demonstrates the sweeping beauty of the Californian landscape. There is an immediate impact of the vastness, solitude and power creating the spirit of the landscape. The vivid qualities of glowing light and color with the furrows and folds of the land engender a dramatic perspective.

We view what this artist sees as she rides along the highway, sometimes taking a train or just walking along the fertile fields of our inland vistas. Her paintings produce a soothing stillness, distilling the most essential elements within the miles of sparsely populated land. The feeling that Winthers’ achieves symbolize the ‘California Dream’ of fertile fields, mountains, rivers, the Pacific Ocean and the endless blue skies. Her works draw the viewer into the wonderment of a glance of our land both visually and emotionally. We sense the intensity and excitement of the paint, the heat and growth after a good rain and the strength of the sky as a backdrop to the simplicity of her subtle tree lined 'scapes.

Fields near Casa de Fruta, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Fields near Casa de Fruta
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
16" x 12"Piece is sold
Two Trees, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Two Trees
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
9¼" x 8"Piece is sold
Highway 156, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Highway 156
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
16" x 12"Piece is sold
Highway 37 #1, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Highway 37 #1
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
9" x 12"Piece is sold
Highway 37 #2, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Highway 37 #2
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
9" x 12"Piece is sold
Highway 37 #3, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Highway 37 #3
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
9" x 12"Piece is sold
  Orange Field #1, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Orange Field #1
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
9½" x 15"Piece is sold
Orange Field #2, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Orange Field #2
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
20" x 22"Piece is sold
Buena Vista #3, Copyright 2002, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Buena Vista #3
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2002
9" x 12"Piece is sold
Point Ano Nuevo, Copyright 2002, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Point Ano Nuevo
Oil on Bristol Board, 2002
8¼" x 11½"Piece is sold
Strand of Trees, Copyright 2002, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Strand of Trees
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2002
8" x 11½"Piece is sold
Yellow Marigold Field off Beach Road, Copyright 2002, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Yellow Marigold Field off Beach Road
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2002
7¼" x 9¼"Piece is sold
View from the Train #1, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
View from the Train #1
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
7" x 8"Piece is sold
View from the Train #2, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
View from the Train #2
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
7" x 8"Piece is sold
View from the Train #3, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
View from the Train #3
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
10" x 10"Piece is sold
     
View from the Train #5, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
View from the Train #5
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
20" x 25"Piece is sold
Golden Wheat Field #4, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
Golden Wheat Field #4
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
20" x 28"Piece is sold
   
View from the Train #4, Copyright 2004, Laurie Winthers -- Click to Expand...
View from the Train #4
Acrylic on Bristol Board, 2004
11" x 30"Piece is sold