Notes of: a vacation you didn't plan, brine, sparkle dots on the horizon, salt on the hollow area between your thumb and index finger, texture of coral or searock, halo as threat, beautiful and don't come closer

Painting rendered in the home of Bim Burton on the Mid-Wales border. Photography by Alex Ramsay.

Greta Waller (b. 1983, Indianapolis) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from UCLA, and also studied at the Pratt Institute, New York Academy of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, and Chelsea College of Arts in London. She has been awarded the Art Purchase Program at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2017); Young Talent Award, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT (2008); Art at the Bridge, The Pink House, West Cornwall, CT (2007-2008); among others. Waller’s work explores impermanence through still life, landscape, and observational realism—drawing connections between beauty, fragility, and time.