{"id":101831,"date":"2026-02-20T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=101831"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:07:49","slug":"painting-sublime-abigale-palmer-and-the-living-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/painting-sublime-abigale-palmer-and-the-living-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Sublime: Abigale Palmer and the Living Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abigale Palmer, “Rising Green,” 60×106 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

All important ideas must include the trees,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

the mountains, and the rivers<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

-Mary Oliver<\/i><\/p>\n

Abigale Palmer<\/a> paints landscapes like Mary Oliver writes poetry. Her brush brings new and yet familiar ways of seeing. The paintings recognize themselves among the family of things. Staring at them echoes a forest bath. Her marks guide the eye along new thought paths, but more than the mind, the experience of seeing engages other senses. Sight, touch, spirit, and even smell play a part in the memory. Shoulders relax, time stops, and your feet root to the earth. The visual is all about immersion. Plunge into the wild: free, joyous, terrible, and full of wonder.<\/h4>\n

Palmer is a contemporary Utah painter known for vibrant, high-chroma works that transform everyday subjects and familiar Western landscapes into emotionally charged, color-driven images. She belongs to a younger generation of Utah artists working between plein-air traditions, contemporary color exploration, and narrative themes rooted in daily life\u2014a selection of which are exhibited alongside works by Cristall Harper this month at David Ericson Fine Art.<\/h4>\n
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Abigale Palmer, \u201cElectric Prisms Vibrant,\u201d 7.5×13 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Take a moment to appreciate the honesty of Palmer\u2019s blue. Never has \u201ctrue blue\u201d held so much meaning. Let\u2019s discard allegiance to football and ideology and instead kneel before the heavens\u2019 pigment. Visceral, it embraces humanness and the untamed. The sapphire space captures\u2014and now you belong to nothing but the sky.<\/h4>\n

Now immerse yourself in the mark-making, honed over years. Rolling planes intersect in determined brush strokes. Trees collide with rock in a frosting-thick palette, so unapologetically feminine. Still-life studies echo Wayne Thiebaud and portraits recall Alice Neel. You can almost imagine Joan Mitchell\u2019s colors and marks converging into the Utah terrain. But these acts belong to Palmer.<\/h4>\n