Nature Center, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 34"
Installation shot from "The Great Outdoors" exhibition, Giertz Gallery, Parkland College
Almanac, 2025. Oil on canvas, 48 x 38"
The Birds, 2025. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 38 x 48"
Installation shot from "The Great Outdoors" exhibition, Giertz Gallery, Parkland College
Big Thanks, 2026. Oil on canvas, 64 x 48"
Google's AI search assistant tells me that "an outdoorsman (plural: outdoorsmen) is a person who spends significant time in nature, actively engaging in pursuits like hiking, camping, hunting, and fishing." By natural extension, Outdoorsmanda is a woman named Amanda who spends time in nature actively engaging in pursuits like gardening, ill-prepared night hikes, being attracted by ground trash, sweaty painting, and admiring vignettes of invasive hedges through a windshield. (Basically, this is a catch-all for my more meandering interpretations of experience in nature).