Born in San Francisco, Nila Oakes grew up with a fascination for cloud formations. Inspired by the California landscape and the Pacific Ocean, her work conveys both her journey as an artist and the peaceful awe she experiences in nature. Her paintings are a reminder of her childhood experiences, when “the light again glimmers through the fog and the smell of salt is in the air.” For her, these are “bittersweet moments, yet mixed into the darkened sky there is encouragement and optimism.” She feels that landscape is a language understood by all of us. It's a visual common denominator with metaphoric capacity strengthened by the viewer's own life experience. “Each painting is unique in the eyes of the beholder; each view is seen through the filter of one's own memory.”
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