Influenced by the natural environment, Ed Kamuda is known for his use of simplified shapes that symbolically, and pictographically convey elements of the landscape. He works with a palette knife rather than a brush, building up and scratching away oil pigment before finishing the surface with a wax varnish to create textural interest. His mystical bent and reverence of nature link him to the Northwest School of painters.

Moody, lush, and mysterious, Thomas Wood’s imagery tends toward the visionary and fantastic. His oil paintings capture the strange and sublime aspects of the Northwest wilderness. Preferring the rhythm and movement of a place, the essence of the experience, to a strict copying of nature, Wood seeks out the “elemental feeling” of pristine Northwest locales.