Stephanie Benedict. Photo courtesy Maria Soto.
Stephanie Benedict is a painter. She paints outside when she can, and in the studio when she must. She says this about her work: “The landscapes I paint are scenes that grab me and shout ‘paint me!’ Sometimes it’s the sunlight reflecting off the incoming fog. Or maybe it’s a storm moving down a valley. Usually it’s the colors: the dark green of nearby trees against the purply-blue mountains in the distance. Or the red of new growth on shrubs against the white of a sunny spring snow bank. I want my paintings to be windows to these moments in time and space, to give the viewer a sense of the season, the temperature, the smell of the dry grasses or the sound of the creek flooding with snowmelt.”
Mendocino Summer by Stephanie Benedict
