Archives for Christensen, Scott

‘I Let the Land Speak to Me’

‘I Let the Land Speak to Me’

October 8, 2025 | by

  Landscape artist Scott Christensen doesn’t let a painting go out the door until he is convinced that it is as perfect as it can be. And he doesn’t rush the process.  “I’ve had some of my paintings for six to eight years,” he says. “I save them to see what the problems are.” He puts them away or turns them to the wall until he can look at them with a fresh eye and change anything that might need changing. Christensen’s self-imposed standards are high—and he paints because he loves to do so, not to win awards. “I don’t
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On to the Next Level

On to the Next Level

January 3, 2009 | by

Paula Holtzclaw (North Carolina) Paula in her Studio Five days a week, Paula Holtzclaw takes a seat at her easel and paints on location. Her setting is an idyllic one in the North Carolina countryside, about 20 miles south of Charlotte, a place of lush gardens and slow-moving clouds, and verdant farmland. She paints there at all times of the day, but she particularly loves the dusk, when the light falls and the colors deepen. Where is this magical place? It’s in Holtzclaw’s house; it’s her studio. Although she has been in her current studio for well over a decade
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