Artist Statement: Jacqueline Rieder Hud
My paintings are fusions of imagery from conscious and unconscious states. They express personal inner growth through cogent manifestations of dreams and wakeful intuitive flashes. As I moved through a landscape or work with my ranch animals, there are moments that hold me, encounters which seem to pull me into the rhythm of the universe itself. I have recorded such moments in journals that I have kept for over twenty years.

This process of going inward to intuit the way to one's personal vision, to the creative radiance, has a tonality of wildness and surrender to it. I see this dynamic within the psychic cauldron as a mirror of the instinctual forces expressing themselves in continuum in the Wholeness of Nature... in the larger Wilderness without.>