Upon first glance, the paintings of Pauline Horricks have an aged quality evoking an aura of nostalgia as translated through memory. She provides the viewer a super-saturated glimpse into the Boreal Forest, utilizing an ethereal light quality in tandem with a poignant color palette. Horricks combines the two to further a heightened sensorial experience, illustrating the ephemeral nature of memories by juxtaposing them with the fleeting beauty of the forest. Likewise, she depicts a fantasy-like glow to her subjects by virtue of an exaggerated contrast between sunlight and shadow, in the style of “chiaroscuro.”  Horricks incorporates nature and the sublime, responding with an artistic impulse imbedded in the dream-like quality of her mind's eye. The viewer is drawn to Horricks' paintings because of their eerie wanton quality, seemingly beckoning to be visually trodden upon. Pauline Horricks’ series “Boreal Music” is a testament to the beauty of her childhood memories of the forest that once was.