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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock N*w» Contributinf Writer
Breathes there an artist who can live with the Blue Ridge and not try to capture the spirit of the mountains?
Leonardo da Vinci would have framed Mona Lisa’s smile with the gentle curves of the foothills.
Claude Monet would have put on canvas his impressions of mountain laurel instead of water lilies.
Picasso would have traded circus people for the apple pickers who work in the mountain slopes.
“It seems everyone who comes here has to do landscapes,” said Margaret Novak, whose series of Blue Ridge pastels opens at the Middle St. Gallery Sunday.
Novak is an abstract artist who has stepped away from her medium for the last three years to paint Double Top, Stoney Man, Old Rag and their sister peaks.
“I couldn’t reach the local people with abstracts. I had a really strong feeling,” she added, touching her heart, “that I wanted to connect them, that I needed to connect them.”
Her Blue Ridge Mountain series makes that connection. She taps into the subconscious of those whose dark morning moods are banished by a view of the mountains, those whose work-worries are erased by the vista that stretches across U.S. 211 to greet them as they return home, those whose jangled nerves are soothed by the final 10 minutes of color as the sun sets behind the Blue Ridge.
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