Olivia Perreault Rogers is a contemporary landscape painter who brings a fresh perspective to traditional paintings of the American wilderness through bold color, graphic composition, and expressive mark-making. Rather than depicting landscapes literally, she simplifies them into dynamic arrangements of shape and color, balancing recognizable places with painterly abstraction. Natural elements such as rivers, waterfalls, mountains, forests, and coastlines become the foundation for compositions defining the shape and flow of the work. With a heightened sense of drama each piece invites the viewer to experience the emotional energy of what it’s like to actually be in that place. Influenced by Impressionism, Claude Monet, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, and California Impressionists such as William Wendt. Olivia creates both immersive large-scale paintings and intimate, jewel-like works. Her ongoing project to paint landscapes from all fifty states gives her practice a distinctive narrative, bringing together diverse American terrains as a cohesive and collectible body of work.