On the Wall: Navitrolla’s juxtaposed landscapes

VINCENT TEETSOV

On a trip out to the countryside, it doesn’t take long before the urge sets in to stretch your arms and shoulders out wide and breathe in all of the fresh air and take in all of the space. It’s open, a canvas for your senses to take in.

It’s also a training ground for so many artists who have taken up plein air painting. These outdoor scenes are a test of one’s skills in observing light, wind, movement, perspective, and changing weather. As expounded upon by designer Ingrid Fetell Lee in her book Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, pastoral scenes are among the most-loved works of art, with some theorizing that this is due to the way they show us habitable types of landscapes. Places that humans are drawn to, with vegetation, water, and room for us to settle in.

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Navitrolla’s painting “Väike valearvestus” (“A Small Miscalculation”).

Photo: navitrolla.ee