The Dawn of Earth Day

Artist: Pam Haunschild

Format: Acrylic on board, black float frame

Dimensions: 16" x 20"

Description:

There's a particular kind of light that only exists for a few minutes at dawn — too brief to photograph, too specific to remember accurately, but unmistakable the moment you see it again. That's what Pam Haunschild went chasing in this piece, building the surface in layers of acrylic and watercolor until the color pushed past what the eye would actually see and into something closer to feeling. "I wanted to capture the lighting of dawn," she says, "a memory of Earth Day." The pines hold their ground against all that intensity of color, a quiet anchor in a landscape lit from somewhere personal. Haunschild is a Signature Member of Artists for Conservation, and pieces like this one are exactly why — work that asks you to feel the natural world, not just look at it.