CATE WEST ZAHL MEADOW
Fieldscape with Queen Anne’s Lace I, oil, charcoal, and pastel on canvas, 60 x 72”, SOLD
Greenwood in March, oil, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas, 72 x 60”, SOLD
Free Union in May, oil, charcoal, and oil crayon on canvas, 48 x 48”, SOLD
Fieldscape with Queen Anne’s Lace II, oil, charcoal, and pastel on canvas, 48 x 48”, SOLD
Lake in Spring, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, SOLD
East End Field, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, SOLD
Tree, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, SOLD
Free Union View, oil on canvas, 24 x 30”, SOLD
Rural Divisions from Above, oil, charcoal, and oil crayon on panel, 18 x 24”, SOLD
Rural Acres, oil on canvas, 12 x 12”, SOLD
Peony Study I, oil and charcoal on canvas, 14 x 11”, SOLD
Peony Study II, oil and charcoal on panel, 14 x 11”, SOLD
Magnolia Study, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, SOLD
Limelight Hydrangea Study, oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, SOLD
East End in July (Cove Hollow Road), oil, oil crayon, and charcoal on canvas, 72 x 72”, SOLD
Meadow I, oil, charcoal, and oil crayon on canvas, 72 x 72”, SOLD
Meadow II, oil, charcoal, and oil crayon on canvas, 72 x 72”, SOLD
Quarantine Tablescape, oil on canvas, 14 x 11”, SOLD
Long Island Dunes, oil and charcoal on linen, 30 x 60”, SOLD
The fields, flora, and rolling hills of Virginia have been my refuge during this season of quarantine. With my children out of school, going to the studio was no longer an option so I took my paints into nature and attempted to capture the beauty of the unkempt countryside. I also discovered still life again, painting flowers with the changing seasons. These studies eventually informed large scale work intended to evoke the gestural feeling of land, sea, and sky.
In a MEADOW, there’s inherently layers of new growth, dying plants, wild weeds, and flowers, carved out of the natural topography of the earth. My paintings mimic this dynamic; the layers of mark making are intentionally not obscured. The compositions are meant to be an evocative, abstracted take on the beauty found in rural, untouched space.
Cate West Zahl is sa painter working in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and three sons. She first studied studio art under Lee Newman at the Holton-Arms school, and then went on to earn her BA in Fine Arts from Hamilton College. Her academic training was based in the technical study of life, a strong foundation from which she could explore more explicit abstraction.