Tracy Baker-White opens landscape show at Tunnel City Coffee

Baker-White's show features landscapes inspired by travels in Ireland and time spent at home in the northern Berkshires. 
Image: Killala Bay by Tracy Baker-White

Artist Tracy Baker-White shows her landscape works at Tunnel City Coffee in Williamstown, MA, through September 2018, featuring large and small scale reflections on her travels in Ireland and her home of the Berkshires. Baker-White’s paintings are windows to places we might have been, or somehow know. They are familiar and invite us into tangible landscapes with a hazy sense of somewhere beyond.    
 
She finds richness in her home of the northern Berkshires, celebrating its hills and rolling farmland with landscape paintings in oil. Her landscapes are vivid dreams with glimpses of reality. Layers of saturated greens and golds bloom over an underpainting of bright orange, giving her work depth and warmth.  

On rural landscapes, Baker-White says, “I am incredibly lucky to live where I live––I’ve lived in cities my whole life until moving to the Berkshires, but always appreciated the abundance of  riches in rural landscapes.”  

Baker-White feels her work is most successful when she can transport a viewer to another place, while reminding them through the brushstrokes, that they are still right here. "My paintings are about existing in the landscape in solitude, and a sense of humility before the natural world,” she says. “I hope they give viewers a reason to stop and appreciate the world around them."

Tracy Baker-White’s show runs at Tunnel City Coffee in downtown Williamstown until the end of September 2018, and all work is available for purchase.