Worman’s landscape paintings are instantly recognizable for their clarity and depth. Light filters through the trees and streams and between the clouds. She is able to retain this vitality because she is continually renewing her vision. She notes, “I work to press beyond method and into a flow of creative instinct; using pastel, oil, acrylic or printmaking to express myself with unusual compositions and expanding vision.”
Living with the view of vast, open landscapes and towering mountains has influenced her perspective on the landscape. Over time, she has shifted her focus from an interpretive style of realism to a contemporary view by focusing on the juxtaposition of objects in the landscape. Buildings, equipment, people, cattle, diagonal lines separating the space, are all tools within the composition. It’s what she refers to as a “stacked landscape,” a near vertical composition of abstracted fields and roads ending at the horizon.
With this newest collection of work, Worman continues her exploration into stacked landscape compositions as well as works that give the viewer an up-close perspective of what lies within the landscape.
Worman has earned the designation of Master Pastellist from the Pastel Society of America. She has been featured in various newspaper and magazine articles including Southwest Art, The Pastel Journal and The Artists Magazine. Most recently, she was awarded First Place for Two Dimensional Art at the Cowgirl Up Show held at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona
Since 1963, Trailside Galleries of Jackson, Wyoming and Scottsdale, Arizona has been regarded as one of the pre-eminent dealers in American representational art, specializing in a rich and varied collection of works by the leading western, wildlife, figurative, impressionist, and landscape artists in the country. The artist roster includes members of the Cowboy Artists of America, National Academy of Design, Oil Painters of America, Plein-Air Painters of America, Prix De West, Society of Animal Artists, National Sculpture Society and Masters of the American West.
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by Andrew Webster
A beautiful array of fresh landscape paintings by this female master are currently hanging through February 28 in an esteemed Southwest gallery. They are “instantly recognizable for their clarity and depth,” the gallery writes. Will you be a lucky viewer?
Some of us might find car trips mundane, but Dinah Worman is inspired by long drives. Her show Perspectives, on view this February at Trailside Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, came to be after a car trip that took Worman through Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa. “The highways make access easy as they cut through the land,” Worman says. “I am inspired by the fields and roads stacking against the horizon.” The buildings, cattle, equipment and diagonal lines of the road are all fodder for inspiration.