Junko Ono Rothwell

Junko Ono Rothwell of Georgia is a plein air landscape painter who works outside with an easel and all her pastels.  She carefully makes strokes with the blatantly bright and sometimes explosive landscape colors.  There is no attempt to tone down the color for that is the way she perceives the scene, and want to present it in all it radiance.  Her working surface is Ersta sanded paper, and her underpainting is accomplished with pastel, turpentine and a brush.

She paints  a wide range of landscape scenes in many locations.  The boldness of her vision helps her create vibrant visual scenes of nature, she is also a fine figurative painter.

-Madlyn-Ann C. Woolwich, "Unforgettable Landscapes: Different Approaches to Light and Texture,"  The Pastel Journal May/June 2000