Petaluma-based painter Kathryn St. Clair is drawn to how light shifts our perception of what surrounds us, creating halos of soft diffusion or pockets of ambiguity. She is intrigued by patterns and distortions in landscapes- where images of what is ‘real’ and what is ‘reflected’ are set adrift or submerged in a nebulous space. She marvels at the mystery that exists in the shadows and the emergence of light from darkness.