Bernie White Hatcher

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Bernie has been painting and exhibiting her work for 50 years.  In that time her medium, content and style have not remained the same, though landscape is her primary source for inspiration. 

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​"Over time perspectives change and we see things differently as we are altered by new viewpoints and attitudes.   At times these shifts can be related to something significant and fundamental to us.  For me, I enlarged and deepen the parameters of how I defined landscape, and with that new ideas and inspiration became evident.  Within the landscape I saw beginnings, changes and adaptation, disturbances and competition. Destruction and decay were obvious, followed by extinction, innovation and renewal --- a multitude of constructs became apparent.  All of this made me more intrinsically connected to the landscape and the environment.  In order to communicate this, it became necessary to find a different visual language and therefore my painting style transitioned."

Today some of Bernie's work is devoid of recognizable symbols, where as in others suggestions are present in various shapes, colors and textures.  The challenge or summons of these landscape inspired paintings, is to look longer and think deeper about the elements presented in her work.  Notice the color, repetition, patterns and rhythms.  Feel and experience the effects of these on and in you, and note how this affects your interpretation and meaning of landscape. 

" Landscape is where we daily reside. It is all encompassing.  Its influences are vital to each of us.  We are in it, and it in us. "

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