Michele Montalbano

As a California native, I grew up outdoors, inherently drawn to nature. As I watch the environment crumble, I feel the need to depict a world that honors nature’s beauty, and provides a momentary escape from a chaotic world. My current series of paintings, is the marriage of the traditional landscape narrative, expressing the beauty, power, and vulnerability within nature, and an imaginative memory inducing subject. I combine all forms of imagery to create a motif existing somewhere between the familiar and the unpredictable. The final landscapes are reprieves of escape, rather than the somewhere that was invented from disparate images