Alix Bacon uses the visual facts of a scene as a point of departure, exaggerating this color or eliminating that object in order to distill what is most important and to convey a sense of place. She likes to think that the experience of moving up to a painting and exploring the beauty of its glazes or a brushstroke can be akin to the beauty felt when sitting on a rock with the wind in one’s face and looking down from the vista to explore a blade of grass. The literature that she has been reading with relation to site planning, landscape architecture and rural preservation, has given her a new insight into work as a landscape painter and the role of landscape and nature in all of our lives, as individuals and community members.