Lydia Gatzow is a contemporary impressionistic landscape oil painter and plein air colorist, born and raised on Lake Michigan in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. In high school she spent a summer abroad in the south of France studying art and after that moved to Pasadena, California. She graduated from Pratt Institute of Art & Design, Brooklyn, New York, in 2015 with a BFA in painting. Her paintings are primarily completed outdoors on site, drawing direct inspiration from nature. These plein air studies also inform her studio work. She sees her paintings as expressions of the beautiful and sacred energies that surround us at all times. She has a background in organic farming in Sweden and Vermont and is passionate about wilderness conservation, meditation, and yoga. Lydia arrived in Sedona, Arizona, in 2019 where she lives full time, after traveling North America in her 1982 VW bus with her partner Charles.