See below for an excerpt from the Washington Post Review by Mark Jenkins:
“Foliage is also central to Wyszomirska’s new series, “Limitless Are Leaves,” whose title comes from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” But fallen leaves are primarily the bottom level of the lushly tiered pieces, much as they are in the old-growth forests the artist celebrates. The mixed-media painting-drawings at Gallery Neptune & Brown are a thematic outgrowth of Wyszomirska’s previous projects about such threatened natural realms as oceans and glacial areas.
The artist started by exploring old-growth forests in the Mid-Atlantic states, where she collected plant matter. In her studio, she steamed the flora onto paper, turning chlorophyll into pigment. Then atop the wispy botanical prints she layered watercolor and colored pencil, often in gentle blues that set off the brownish leaf impressions. Some of the added markings are abstract gestures, but they also include renderings of maps, weather data and tree-network graphs. As dense as Battenfield’s paintings are stark, Wyszomirska’s complex pictures both emulate and evoke the forests that inspired them. “
