Virginia L Dauth, Studio and Plein Air PainterVirginia lives in Dallas, Georgia just northwest of metro Atlanta, and received her BA in Studio Art from Kennesaw State University. Painting the landscape is to see the beautiful subtle colors that light brings to life in nature and to be sensitive to what draws her to paint a particular scene. She sees color in the shadows, luscious plums, navy blues, and the light dancing off the shimmering leaves of a brilliant sunny day. A painter can find beauty in the texture, pattern, and shapes that reveal a splendid composition which most would ordinarily overlook. She tries to translate what one would feel about a place, the warmth or coolness of the air, the atmosphere, and time of day into her sensibilities of mark-making, color, and compositional arrangements. Virginia hopes to show the viewer another way of looking and thinking about a particular subject, a surprise, an excitement, or the joy of discovering something new not evident to them before.