Virginia's paintings are founded in the legacy of the past American Landscape painters. Her work is influenced by those who came before: the landscape painters who defined American Art, such as the Hudson River School, the Plein Air Painters of California and on through the vernacular of American Impressionism as seen in the works of Homer, Twatchman and Benson.

Landscapes were the sensibilities of their times and are still the sensibilities of landscape painters today. The genre of Landscape has always captured the hearts and emotions of the American public and will continue to do so.

She creates her landscapes from the classical sense to the modern and sometimes stylistically in between. Virginia defines her style as expressive colorism, with the use of bold stroke and the pushing of intense color.