What Lies Within, Brenda Salamone Solo Exhibition

When Brenda moved to southern California in 2001, her art became inspired by the untamed beauty of the southwest desert and the crashing waves and giant cliffs of the Pacific Ocean. Brenda has traveled all over the world exploring beautiful vistas to paint. Her favorites are the Greek Islands, especially Santorini, and her dream to travel to the Scottish Highlands to capture the wild landscapes, lochs, and standing stones of that ancient land came true as her honeymoon in 2016. Her current work came about from a deepening appreciation of the
artistic beauty in all nature’s forms.
Her style is an abstract expression of the beauty of gemstone minerals in their natural state, before they are cut and polished to perfection. These exciting elements of the Earth are often hiding within a gray exterior of rock, and it isn’t until they escape this matrix that their true brilliance can shine. This collection, Geomorphic Abstractions, is about the importance of digging deeper and seeing beyond the superficial and thus invites the viewer to explore What Lies Within.