Instances in Nature that Feed the Soul

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Painter Ann Guidera-Matey extracts breathtaking moments in nature that it takes a true artist to find in a landscape. 

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Working chiefly in pastels, Ann captures the sacred in scenes that replenish the spirit, finding inspiration in Queen Anne’s Lace floating across a field, the setting sun or the rhythm of boat masts reflected in quiet waters in settings from the Brandywine River Valley to Maine to Italy. 

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Having worked as an arts administrator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as a painter for 25 years, Ann has honed a technique in which she applies pastels to a panel under painted with acrylic and then primed with a pumice gel mixture that adds texture to the composition.