“Palden is a master at creating paintings that exhibit design precision and artistic skill that captivates and carries the viewer throughout the painting… Figurative, landscape, or still life, each painting has a way of evoking familiar feelings, a sense of touch, emotion, or memory. Poetry, brilliance, and beauty at once.”

–Lillian K. Ansley, co-founder, Olmsted Plein Air, as quoted in Plein Air Magazine