Mandy Main

Afternoon in Tuscany, Oil Painting

2020

Artist Comments
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 extend into the yellow-green foreground, drawing the eye to the pathway through the field. "I used oil paint with cold wax medium applied with silicon wedges, not brushes, to creates the painterly, textured composition," says Mandy. "The cheerful sky and verdant greens evoke a cool, healing landscape - a retreat to natural abundance."

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, nature, sky, clouds, impressionism, field, trees, Tuscany, Italy, hike, walk, impressionism, landscape, representational, oil painting, green

Afternoon in Tuscany
Mandy Main
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2020
12 in. h x 12 in. w x 1.5 in. d
1 lbs. 5 oz.