ON THE COVER

Soaring to New Heights
Oil, 24" x 30"
by Elayne Kuehler

“Nature is the best teacher,” maintains Elayne Kuehler, a Baton Rouge artist with a passion for capturing beautiful things directly from life. But Kuehler painted this vista—a beach on Florida’s Anna Maria Island, from a photograph, “because clouds just move too quickly.” Painting primarily still lifes and Louisiana landscapes, Kuehler describes herself as a romantic realist, “because I think that, with so many bad things in the world, it’s very reviving to see the beauty that’s out there, too. It’s important to me to find that beauty and capture it. And share it.”
See more of Kuehler’s still-lifes, landscapes, and beach scenes at Taylor Clark Gallery in Baton Rouge, The Garden District Gallery in New Orleans, and at www.elaynekuehler.com.