Artist Statement: Jacqueline Rieder Hud
The language of the Soul is metaphor. Out of the chaos of sitting with the eternal language of Dream and numinous energy that comes in with that, a level of transformation occurs and emerges in paint. The animals in landscape are that, but they are also symbolic of a bridge between psyche and viscera.

I feel a sense of union with animal spirits and an admiration for their rhythmic interaction with their environment, a rhymn that Man an Animal has long forgotten. I long for the Human heart and mind to engage the intrinsic value of wild places. Sit in stillness... take a breath, reflect upon what man as species has wrought upon Mother Earth.