Mary Helen Follingstad’s paintings are dynamic meditations on truths gleaned from the natural world. Whether realist or abstract, these works often conjure the contours of a horizon, the light of sunrise, or the textures of earth. These meditations, which often take shape as abstracted visions of color and form, draw us both deeper into reflection on the world around us and simultaneously lead us to peer into an otherworld—one of imagination and contemplation. Within the hard matter of rock and sky, the artist sees spirit and light. (continue)