BY MOONLIGHT

THE MAGICAL LANDSCAPES OF CAROLINE BURDETT

NOVEMBER + DECEMBER 2024

Pinkwater Gallery presented a show of new paintings by Woodstock-based artist Caroline Burdett. Her surrealistic landscapes arrived at the gallery at a turbulent time marked by a national election, the outcome of which will indelibly determine the future state of women’s lives in this country.

Burdett’s work is not a commentary, as such, on our existence at the precipice of a new kind of future, but it exists in an environment that is informed by a collective lack of urgency around preserving the progress made on many things. The work that this intelligent young artist creates in her mountain-view studio is reflective of a sense of wonder at the grandeur of the natural world. The dreamlike state of these landscapes belies a foreboding that this beautiful place may be under threat, yet at the same time, this world has existed placidly under the moonlight for eons. The planet will be fine after we are gone, though the magic conjured by our existence on it will be lost.