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Phyllis Trowbridge, Green Forest, Newton Road, 2018, 30″ x 36″, oil on canvas. Photo credit: Jim Lommasson.

Phyllis Trowbridge | Painting in Time

Southwest

When

Feb. 24–Mar. 21, 2025

Monday through Friday

Free

Where

North View Gallery

12000 SW 49th Ave
Portland, OR 97219

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

An exhibition of paintings by Phyllis Trowbridge, who has been closely observing the Pacific Northwest landscape for decades, often returning to the same site year after year, tracking subtle and dramatic changes in each environment she selects. Ranging from massive canvases on which dignified oaks tower, to smaller, more intimate views of her garden and the flowers it produces, Trowbridge’s work hints at the value of careful attention and the joys of returning to a site again and again, painting in time.

Art historian Prudence Roberts, who wrote an essay accompanying the exhibition, describes Trowbridge’s work as spontaneous images of places the artist loves. Trowbridge does not work from photographs and instead paints directly on her canvases on site, returning to a site multiple times to complete each piece. This approach gives her work an immediacy and intensity, yet, as Roberts notes, it has also meant that Trowbridge’s landscapes have become unintentional records exposing the impacts of climate change.