SATURATION MIGHT be Michelle Condrat’s watchword. She has created a niche for herself in a very saturated genre, landscape painting; in a very saturated market: the desert, southwest of the United States; in a place where the very landscape is saturated in bold natural colour.
Artists are drawn to landscape painting in the southwestern United States because of the overwhelming vistas in the very places where Michelle paints. At the Grand Canyon, for example, one can see for thousands of square miles from a single point on the walkway. In Zion National Park, a tower of striking red rock cliffs soars toward an ultramarine blue sky; and that’s just the view from the parking lot.
But Michelle didn’t have to transport
