http://www.pbuckleymoss.com/
Artist P. Buckley Moss is known for her paintings of Shenandoah Valley landscapes and illustrations of the Olde Order Mennonites and Amish. Moss is from Waynesboro, VA and her museum is ten minutes from my parents house. Every office, waiting room, cafe, lobby, nursery, hospital, library, public building, school, etc in Augusta County, VA has one of her prints on it's wall. She is a town Icon.
I have truly grown up inside of a Moss painting. Her illustrative style uses calligraphic trees, and simple 2D perspective mirroring the simple livelihood of the subjects which gives her works a folk art (Grandma Moses) feeling.
Often when standing at the crest of hill and gazing out upon the rolling hills of the Shenandoah with her Blue Ridge Mountains rising off to the side, it all looks as if a two-dimensional painting flat upon the horizon.
In my opinion, which I am a local "Shenandoan", Moss really does translate the soul of the landscape in each work.
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