“To guide you through nature’s changing patterns, each of the four seasonal chapters contains clear, step-by-step demonstrations showing how to achieve the painterly effects that light up these instructive pages filled with a master pastelist’s inspiring work.  This book covers all the fundamentals of the medium.”

Watson -Guptill Publications/New York, 2001

160 pages, 220 color illustrations, 9 ¼ x 9 ¼”

“Authoritative, sensitive, and beautifully written, The Poetic Landscape is the first book of its kind, one that leads the reader into a peaceful, fresh, and deeply meaningful world. Everyone who appreciates sublime depictions of the natural world will relish this contemporary exploration of what constitutes the poetic in landscape painting today.  Artists will be drawn to the author’s thoughtful words on color, composition, and subject matter.  Viewers will be illuminated by her insights into the psychological role the genre plays in our lives.”

Watson -Guptill Publications/New York, 2001

160 pages, 100 color illustrations, 9 ¼ x 9 ¼”

Review of The Pastelist’s Year, Amazon.com

“One of the very best!  This book opened up new worlds for me.   I find Elizabeth Mowry to be very sharing, knowledgeable and willing to show how she achieves certain passages in her paintings.  I wish I could thank her personally for her very inspirational book.  I have also given her book to friends and they all love it.”

         

Reviews of The Poetic Landscape, Amazon.com

“A beautiful book.  I found that this book was one of the best art books that I have read in a long time.  Ms. Mowry’s insights into poetic landscape will stay with you.  The paintings illustrated are beautiful and express the meaning of poetic landscape.  This is a great book for artists looking to make their own statement.  It will become one of your most read books.”

“Sublime.  I became lost in this book.  Better than any “how to” book on painting landscapes.  Mowry opens one’s mind to the poetry and philosophy of creating great art.  The time spent reading this book is like attending a very, very good workshop where one learns to paint with his or her heart.”

         

Praise for Landscape Meditations on back cover of the book

“What a gorgeous treasure of a book!  Elizabeth Mowry’s exceedingly insightful and generously personal ruminations on landscape painting_liberally laced with her luminous paintings_ will delight artists, art lovers, and nature lovers.  I found the ‘Thoughts: Artist to Artist’ inspiring for a writer as well:  ‘Pay attentions to what attracts you,’ says Mowry, and ‘Pursuit of subtlety is not for the weak hearted. ’Indeed!  Landscape Meditations will help you recognize those ‘sanctified places of most intrigue’ in your own life.”

Gail godwin, writer

“The high level of excellence in Elizabeth Mowry’s pastel landscapes is well recognized and appreciated by artists and art lovers, but in these “Landscape Meditations” we are introduced to another aspect of her poetic imagination:  she is an accomplished writer whose prose lyrically enhances the meditative nature of her work.”

H.N. Levitt, PLAYWright

“Elizabeth Mowry paints the most sensitive of paintings and shows me all so clearly the lovely world she lives in.  What I see in her paintings is the beauty and spirituality that is…Elizabeth.”

Albert handell, author of “painting the landscape in pastel”

“Huston Smith said, “What distinguishes sacred art is the window it opens onto another world…a world that is vaster, stronger, more real, and more beautiful than the world we normally encounter.’  So for me, your book is a prayer.”

Olaf hillestad, retired professor, state university of New York

                      “Landscape Meditations is, in every respect, a sweet masterpiece.”

Patricia Anderson, writer

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Other publications where writing and artwork by elizabeth Mowry appears

( Selected Listing )

       Pastel Journal Magazine:

                “Sacred Silence”  June 2009

                “Elizabeth Mowry Talks About Poetic Landscape”  April 1996

        Rockport Publishers:

                The Best of Pastels 1 1996

                Landscape Inspirations  1997

                The Best of Pastels  2 1998

         North Light Publishers:

                The Best of Flower Painting      1996

                The Best of Flower Painting 2   1997

                Artist’s Guide to Materials and Techniques   1996

                Pastel Interpretations   1993

                Art Journey America: Landscapes, 2011

         National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei City, Taiwan

                Pastel Application Techniques For Beginners , 2013

        Book Art Press:  New Art International  2000-2001

        ART TIMES  “Profile:  Elizabeth Mowry”   April 1986

 

        

        

“The underlining abstract in all of the chapters of this book is a thoughtful inquiry into when and whether a subject is worthy of painting it.  Elizabeth Mowry’s previous books, The Pastelist’s Year  and The Poetic Landscape, addressed the questions of “how to paint” and “why?”  In Landscape Meditations, the trilogy comes full circle, with inspiration for artists of all levels as they thoughtfully consider “what” to paint in any medium.”

Watson-Guptill Publications/New York, 2005

160 pages, 208 color illustrations, 9 ¼ x 9 ¼”