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

Kendall builds her paintings in accumulated layers, working from observation, recollection, and feeling simultaneously. The marks stay visible. Each one is evidence of a gesture made under conditions that cannot be repeated. Horizon lines hold the compositions while atmospheric washes and gold metallics move across the surface, tracing the presence and departure of light.

Her work asks what remains of a landscape after it has passed through time. How does the quality of light at the edge of a sunset translate and become something that endures? Kendall's paintings sit in that space between the seen and the felt, seeking the exact meeting point between the specific moment and the feeling it leaves behind.

Her current series, Chasing Sunsets, takes as its subject the threshold between daylight and its absence, inspired by the Pacific Northwest sky.

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

Studio Bellingham, Washington

Now Showing Chasing Sunsets The Gallery at Istari, Bellingham, WA. April 24 – June 26, 2026.