ICELAND EXPERIENCE 
Aug 15th-Sept 19th (FB won't allow an event more than two weeks)

Rita’s journey to Iceland began with an offer from her youngest daughter to meet in Iceland for an adventure. Upon their arrival they found waterfalls everywhere, flowing into lakes and streams that dotted the landscape. Towering mountains were covered with fog as the setting sun pierced the veil covering. The dark mountainous shapes were accented by the unbelievable skies both day and night. Every bend in the road revealed a new view demanding attention. 

This landscape spoke to Rita on an elemental level. Its message was emotionally charged, with breath-taking images at every turn. Rita shot thousands of photos as she experienced this new landscape. On her return some of those photos led the way as she painted her experiences, revealing themselves here in her paintings. 

Rita hopes you will find the magic of her Iceland Experience in every painting she is sharing with you in this exhibit.

Rita graduated with Art degrees from the College of St. Benedict and Iowa State University, Iowa City, IA. She taught for 25 years at St. Joseph School in Rosemount before retiring and dedicating her time to painting, gardening, and travel.

Marty Owings & Kurt Schulzetenberg

Marjorie Moody

Heather Friedli "One In The Land"

Heather Friedli is best known for her abstract impressionist oil paintings, depicting her family heritage and the land in which she lives. Bold brush strokes and brilliant colors light up scenes of cloudscapes, water, trees, and native plants. Many pieces are created in the context of her wilderness adventures; she often brings her paints outdoors to create work that shares with the viewer her experience of immersion
in the landscape. Within these colorful works, Heather explores the spiritual world through the lens of culture and lived experience of place. Heather’s work is creative, soulful, bold, and powerful.

Friedli’s show “One in the Land” is an effort to synthesize her love and experience in the natural world, and wilderness adventure travel. Those experiences, being out in the world seeing the beauty and power of nature are represented in both large and small scale paintings. She paints with a passion for the land, looking around and internalizing the colors and expressing them onto canvas. Her work is not only an expression of what she sees, but also becomes a physical dance with her painting. The movement and rhythms in these works are her own unique experience with the land around her.

Show runs Nov 9th to Jan 4th, 2020