"This year, the TV lightning has struck three fast-rising art stars [including] Faith Lund, an upholder of the impressionist tradition in painting.

Lund, influenced by the British landscape, draws upon abstract techniques in approximating the textures of the buildings and the soft European light.

’I was drawn to the subject matter because it is quaint and appealing, yet not cute,’ says the artist. ‘The surfaces of the buildings have a wonderful character to them, and this is one of the principal concerns of my work.’

Lund’s pictures start as a flattish, watercolorlike image, then develop as she layers them with a watery pigment and acrylic blend in order to achieve a lacy-edged effect…"

-James Auer, The Milwaukee Journal

"Lund applies the abstract techniques she learned as a University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee graduate student under the direction of John Colt to the textures of the buildings, walkways, and foliage. ‘I think any artist views things differently than people in other fields would,’ said Lund. ‘When we look at a scene, we’re picking things apart. When we look at a tree, we’re probably looking at the moss on the tree more than the figure of the tree itself.’

Lund layers her work, beginning with a watery pigment/acrylic bled into the canvas to create a lacy-edged effect. She works back and forth between the light, watered acrylic and dabs of oil, which move around the points of the oil-restrictive acrylic paint. ‘Any painting is a problem-solving situation,’ said Lund. ‘Always making changes, doing different things to create the effect.”"

West Bend Daily News