Penelope V. Hauck is a mixed media artist based in Southborough, MA. Her practice, while rooted in formal study of art history, studio art, and museum education, is distinctly influenced by the free art classes she attended at the Worcester Art Museum as a youth. Growing up in Worcester as a bilingual student, Penelope used the tools and language of art materials to express her life experiences and through this study, became a keen observer of objects, paintings, their meaning, and the artists who created them. In the late 1990s, Penelope began running and experiencing nature in different ways. Her interest in endurance sports and triathlons has intersected with her art practice and provoked the realization that sports, movement, and art are aligned for the very same reason: they force her to be present, attentive to her breath and movement through space. Penelope is fascinated with the dynamism of color, light, expressive line, and the intersection of these elements. Her works engage a free expression of gesture across a variety of media. Her subjects, while rooted in the traditional genres of landscape and still life, are reflections of her personal interests and include fruit, vegetables, flowers, and pure abstract form. The happy and uplifting qualities of her work are found equally in the natural forms she depicts and the negative spaces around them, all rendered in a vibrant palette of saturated hues.