Linda Okazaki, Spring Bouquet, 2020, pastel on tan rag paper, 34.5 x 26.75 x 1.50 in

Linda Okazaki's recent work emerges from an evolving dialogue between painting and landscape. Following her exhibitions Realms of Influence and Familiar Places at the Grover Gallery, her practice shifted outward from the studio toward the surrounding environment. Together with her husband, Ray Weber, she began transforming their garden into a cultivated space designed as a living palette for painting.

This project is informed by the garden at Giverny and the work of Claude Monet, as well as the symbolic botanical studies of Hilma af Klint. Okazaki also draws on her earlier academic work in art history and color theory, including the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose exploration of color as a perceptual experience continues to inform her approach.

Plants are selected and arranged according to chromatic relationships and perceptual dynamics, allowing seasonal change, light, and atmosphere to continuously reshape the visual field. Observing from her studio and within the garden itself, Okazaki uses this shifting environment as both subject and source for painting, where experience, perception, and color theory converge into an ongoing visual inquiry.