This exhibition features selections of work by Louisville based artists, Anne Borders and Brenda Wirth. The artists are both observers and creators, responding to the landscape of the natural world. 

 

Anne aims to create a landscape experience between reality and imagination, she seeks to describe an emotion that helps us feel the vast open world beyond our own limited daily experience, that helps us feel present, awed, and peaceful. 

 

Brenda observes the natural world, the trees, plants, sky, water, and rocks and responds to it through her art. Brenda’s art practice is diverse in media and includes painting, photography, and found object sculptures. 

 

Artist Bios

 

Anne Borders

 

Anne Borders is a visual artist primarily focused on painting impressions of the natural world in acrylic on canvas. Fascinated with color and art from childhood, she studied art history and classics at the University of Kentucky. Working in the nonprofit world as a buyer and Director of Retail at the Speed Art Museum and later at the Kentucky Derby Museum, she brought her creative sense to

product development, buying, staging and design. In 2012, Anne shifted from nonprofit retail to interior design, officially registering her business in 2016.

 

Anne began exhibiting her paintings in 2007 in a solo show at the Galt House. She continues to do commissioned paintings for local businesses and clients. Her paintings are available through her website with collection releases each year. Anne’s passion is to notice, cherish and cultivate a beautiful world.

 

Brenda Wirth

 

I grew up in a household where my mother painted, my father sang opera, and my older sister and brother played guitar, drew and painted. My family gave me the artistic support I needed: plenty of art supplies, lots of unstructured time. We all explored the outdoors, and to us, a family vacation meant going to a forest or a nearby park. To combine my love of art and nature, I liked to draw perched in a tree house we built.

 

I’ve always loved observing the natural world around me; trees, plants, sky, water, and rocks; and responding to it with my art. I studied art in college and graduate school (University of Louisville, Kansas City Art Institute, Indiana University) Where I focused on painting, but also took time drawing, printmaking and taking photographs.

 

My work includes painting, watercolor and mixed media, photographs and found object sculptures. All my work takes inspiration from the natural world. The photographs included in this show are combinations of several photographs digitally overlaid, cut-out,

rotated, mirrored or otherwise altered and printed on aluminum. The sculptures are a mix of natural objects sometimes combined with man-made found objects.