It is easy to relinquish to the persuasions of nature-the explicit calm; the romantic and prophetic suggestions of the shimmering, reaching waters; the sublime vastness of the sky.

Such is the natural grace behind artist Kathryn Soave's lucid paintings. Soave has effected an important artistic resolution in her most recent body of work. These new paintings generate a dramatically essential dialogue through the artist's suggestive variations on both the physical and metaphysical environments of the Mediterranean and of a universal geography.

The formal intricacies in Soave's paintings operate purposefully, encouraging a critical examination of just how the dimensions of space, line, form and color can accentuate a more subjective equation.

Soave ascribes a very directed meaning to the evanescent vessels, ghostly pyramids and linear ladder edifices animating her works. In fact, arriving at expressive depths marks the ultimate consequence of her generously abstracted imagery and embellished surfaces. These ellipses, circles and filaments cloaked in velvety strata of vibrant coloration inventively transform into a kind of towering spiritual trapping with the command to offer impacting conclusions on life's schemes.

Evincing both a brilliant technical handling as well as a startlingly intuitive force, these works are a dazzling tapestry of life. With titles such as Ghost Ships, Red Sky, and Infinite Voyage we can understand how each painting's revealing cast of forms narrates a hopeful passage through life, the systems of guidance and navigation, the signals of growth and the markings of experience. We are delivered dutifully to a condition of meditation by means of a personal diaristic imprint of the artist's own education on life and spirit.