Wheat Field

About The Artist: Thelma Appel

Ms. Thelma Appel is a painter whose work clearly represents a natural development and extension of the artistic thinking of the immediate past. The central subject in her work is landscape. Landscape painting, and in fact most painting, has historically been treated as foreground, middleground and background. Ms. Appel's paintings, however, destroy the illusion of space. Instead, her filaments and shapes float on the surface of the canvass in a...