Gallery Owner: Arin Waddell is a treasure in our community, both as an artist and as a dedicated community volunteer. She gives 110% of herself in all that she does and we are so excited to get to share her work with you. Artist Statement: My artwork uses whimsy, bold color, and personal "icons" to challenge the imagination and inspire inquiry within each viewer about our collective disconnect from the natural world, and perhaps from each other. In the West, it is difficult not to obsess over and make art about our compelling landscape. I have come to painting through a back door of concepts and metaphors gathered together like little stones from the path of my own history. in these visual stories - inspired from flora, fauna, friends, and family - the personal stretches out to become universal.