Psychedelic Picnic: Breath Of Fresh Air / Various

American landscape painter Mary Sipp-Green, based in the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, is exceptional in her ability to draw the viewer into her atmospheric landscapes and seascapes. The intensely saturated colors in her works evoke an immediate sense of place. Building up layer upon layer of paint, Sipp-Green achieves an ethereal quality that imparts a refined serenity. Many of the subjects she paints--salt marshes, barns, meadows, rivers and the occasional cityscape--are captured in the beautiful light of dusk or a luminescent sunrise. In a statement, she describes the appeal of a life in painting: "to be always and everywhere involved in the mysterious dimensions of the everyday, in the extraordinary way in which the visible world can articulate something meaningful through the medium of paint." This is the first substantial monograph on her marvelous oeuvre.