Notes of: brine and silk, salt on the lip, cold against the palm, tongue's surprise, a round weight, nacre built from irritation, seaside friendship

Painting rendered in the home of preservationist Christ Ohrstrom in Virginia. Photography by Simon Upton.

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.