Olive Ayhens: Freewheeling Landscapes

Olive Ayhens, Cat in the Night, oil on canvas, 48 x58 inches,1999 (courtest of t
Olive Ayhens, Cat in the Night, oil on canvas, 48 x58 inches,1999 (courtest of the artist)

Elisabeth Condon blogs images from a studio visit with painter Olive Ahens.

Condon writes: "In 1996 I flipped over an Olive Ayhens painting at DC Moore for its painterly facture and humorous drawing portraying a traffic jam of cars falling between rocks as if water. The serendipitous combination of real elements and imaginary landscape delighted the eye and engaged thoughts on time, place and how they are experienced and remembered."