"What I try to do in a painting is recreate for the viewer the way certain paintings make me feel when I look at them: like I’m being spread as the frosting of a very large cake. Like I could swim upward from where I’m standing. Like everything’s going to be good from now on.
"Even though I return to certain subjects, such as a favorite model or type of landscape, the technique is different each time, I think because a big part of making art for me is the making—exploring and experimenting and seeing what new results I can produce. I like to be surprised by something that came from my own hands."
-- Stephanie Bucholz