For the next few days, Laurie Fendrich and husband Peter Plagens are the visiting artists at Painting's
Edge art colony in Idyllwild, California.
Around the mid-1800's, the time that the French Impressionism lost its
edge and became a valuable style, with various exhibitions happening in America presenting the European painters, the American painters began to gather in artistic
colonies that centered on outdoor paintings, which later influenced a movement of garden
art in America.