Artist Statement

I paint landscapes the way I felt them, which is to say not exactly as they were.

I work in watercolor and mixed media on paper, building each painting in layers. Some stay visible, others get buried as a disguised history under the surface. What I'm after is the part of a place that stays with you after you've gone. The color at the edge of a sunset. The feeling more than the fact. I'm looking for the point where the moment and the memory of it meet.

Chasing Sunsets, my current series, lives in the threshold between daylight and the dark that follows. The Pacific Northwest sky gives me plenty to chase.

About Andrea

Andrea Kendall is a painter based in Bellingham, Washington. Working in watercolor and mixed media on paper, she makes abstract, atmospheric paintings that explore landscape and light as emotional memory.

Kendall is the owner and curator of The Studio at Istari, a gallery and creative space in Fairhaven Village, Bellingham, WA where she shows her own work alongside rotating exhibitions from other artists.

Education: BFA, Fine Art and Art History: University of California, Davis

Studio: Bellingham, Washington