Martha Ceccio, Oils and Encaustics

Martha’s landscapes frequently depict a scene where it is difficult to discern just where the sky meets the horizon. The land is at times hidden but not quite lost in the shadows. Her oil paintings and her encaustics embrace the geometric structure of the space and the emotional power of color. The land is disarmingly simple, reduced to tonalities that tend toward abstraction. Martha has received awards from the Ann Arbor Women Artists and in 2002 she was offered a Residency at Voyageurs National Park in Montana and a Graduate Fellowship from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.