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Artist: Ana Martinez Orizondo
2026
Soft pastel on linen
12 x 9 in
Tree Stories series
My Tree Stories series often begins with a specific tree encountered during my daily walks. Drawn to the markings, textures, and rhythms of its bark, I use these observations as a point of departure rather than a subject to replicate. Through an intuitive process, each work transforms into an imagined landscape inhabited by sacred beings, symbols, and evolving forms—inviting viewers to consider trees as living storytellers, keepers of memory, and participants in a shared ecological consciousness.
Working with soft pastel on linen, I push the medium beyond its traditional boundaries. By layering, watering, rubbing, and eroding pigment, I transform pastel into a painterly language that mirrors the fragility and resilience of living systems. This evolving process creates atmospheric surfaces that evoke memory, impermanence, and continual becoming.
Artist: Ana Martinez Orizondo
2026
Soft pastel on linen
12 x 9 in
Tree Stories series
My Tree Stories series often begins with a specific tree encountered during my daily walks. Drawn to the markings, textures, and rhythms of its bark, I use these observations as a point of departure rather than a subject to replicate. Through an intuitive process, each work transforms into an imagined landscape inhabited by sacred beings, symbols, and evolving forms—inviting viewers to consider trees as living storytellers, keepers of memory, and participants in a shared ecological consciousness.
Working with soft pastel on linen, I push the medium beyond its traditional boundaries. By layering, watering, rubbing, and eroding pigment, I transform pastel into a painterly language that mirrors the fragility and resilience of living systems. This evolving process creates atmospheric surfaces that evoke memory, impermanence, and continual becoming.