Mandy Main Paintings
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th-century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Main works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. Main is captivated by light and shadow and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Main achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.
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Dramatic technicolor clouds sweep across the sky, reflecting their vibrant hues on the water and sand below. The light from the nearly obscured sun peeks throug...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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"Traveling in England's Cotswolds region, I sought out a number of impressive gardens designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown," shares artist Mandy Main. "Thi...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Dark, stormy clouds cover the sun, looming over a coastline and creating a dramatic mood for the seascape. On the horizon, a lone sailboat casts a silhouette ag...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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This painting captures a serene beach filled with warm light. In the foreground, lush grasses catch the glow of the setting sun while the water beyond the dunes...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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In the style of 19th-century Luminism, this painting captures the late afternoon sun casting a golden glow through clouds, reflected in the estuary below. Thin ...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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This painting combines landscape and abstraction to portray the sound waves beneath the earth's surface as towering columns in shades of blue, green, and purp...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main paints a traditional old-world landscape of a peaceful estuary filled with warm greens and blues. Hazy and ivory-tinted clouds conceal the aft...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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"Paintings are spiritual outpourings," says artist Mandy Main. She creates an atmospheric and dreamy landscape in a pastel palette. The view shows a loosely ren...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main presents an expansive, glowing landscape with an accentuated perspective that pulls the eye deep into the distance. "The impressive momentum o...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main presents a light-filled atmospheric landscape that combines old-world realism with a modern aesthetic. A brimming reservoir stretches off into...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main presents an uplifting, light-filled landscape of vast green fields and limitless skies. The breathtaking vista combines old-world realism with...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main depicts a sunny seascape with a diagonal beach line and coastal mountains receding into the distance. Ethereal clouds sweep the sky and reflec...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main demonstrates a realistic display of dramatic light and clouds illuminating the landscape. The atmospheric piece appears at once serene and yet full of movement. Pushed perspective creates depth, and the shadowed gash provides a focal point. The aqua blues in the sky contrast with the ground's warm ochre and orange tones.
About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main paints a vast Tuscan countryside. A field of red poppies dazzles in the foreground as masses of impossibly bright yellow rapeseed flourish in the background. Mandy paints the nearby hills shrouded in vibrant blues and greens as the far mountains recede into the distance with gray tones. She suggests natural elements throughout the scene with loose brushwork.
About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main travels extensively and loves being able to relive her trips by making paintings of them. "This dramatic perspective, with its warm colors, ca...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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A peaceful scene of an isolated beach embodies a sense of serenity and quiet in artist Mandy Main's minimalist seascape. The rock formations, sculpted with light and shadow, imbue an organic quality. A thin slice of the tranquil deep blue ocean rests above the softly undulating sand. The gradient sky...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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"Dramatic skies rise above a peaceful coastal scene at day’s end," describes artist Mandy Main. "Clouds make an elegant sweep into the distance as their wisps...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main shows a peaceful inlet surrounded by lush vegetation. Deep shadows contrast with the bright sunlight, leading the eye into the composition and...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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"Puffy cumulus clouds float appearing lit from within, overlaying wispy cirrus clouds sailing through a dark blue sky," says artist Mandy Main. A dramatic sky...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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A scarlet road moves forward into the distance through a soft-focused countryside creating a contemporary atmospheric landscape. "The eye moves around the com...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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In this painting, artist Mandy Main contrasts the iconic geometric shapes of mid-century architecture with the organic forms of the surrounding vegetation. "Wide, shallow hard-edged concrete steps make a curving arc uphill through velvety green grass, leading to an aqua door matching the aqua sky which is also reflected in the adjacent window," describes Mandy. "Aloes with red flowers front a glass partition...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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"This tall, thin painting captures the noble stature of an impressive redwood tree in contrast to the delicate foliage highlighted by filtered sunlight," says...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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An uplifting, light-filled landscape that combines old world realism with a modern aesthetic. Cumulus clouds gather at the horizon and sweep upward across the sky, enlivening the landscape. The cool blues of the sky contrast with the warm oranges and ochres of the hills. The long horizontal format gives a contemporary feel and a sense of calm.
About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.
Words that describe this painting: landscape, realism, nature, clouds, sky, sunlight, countryside, panoramic, hills , landscape, realism, representational, oil painting, blue
Golden Hills...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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In this contemporary impressionistic scene, artist Mandy Main captures the sense of racing through the desert just before nightfall. "Headlights illuminate gl...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Serene, atmospheric landscape painted to convey a soothing mood. A sky of aqua-tinged blues and soft clouds hovers above velvet green fields. In the foregroun...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Artist Mandy Main based this painting on a walk she took in Tuscany just after a rainstorm. Billowing clouds float in the robin's egg blue sky. Long shadows e...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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An atmospheric landscape defined by soft, rolling fog over a velvet green field. In the foreground, the suggestion of a curving road leads the eye to the hori...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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A panoramic landscape of Montegabbro, a tiny medieval village in the heart of Tuscany. We stayed here four years ago and loved it so much we will be returning this fall, says Mandy Main. In the foreground, the ochre and sienna toned field leads the eye into the painting. The green countryside and distant violet hills are loosely rendered, mostly using a palette knife. Shafts of light at the horizon lead the eye up to the dramatic warm clouds sweeping across the pale periwinkle blue sky. An iconic Tuscan palette. The edges of the gallery wrapped canvas are painted a dark espresso color.
About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.
Ochre Field...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
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Contemporary impressionist landscape of vineyards at sunset. The radiating lines of the fields lead the eye toward trees and mountains at the horizon and a bu...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil, Acrylic
2010s Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century American Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
1970s Realist Mandy Main Paintings
Canvas, Oil
