Mandy Main

Wine Country XI, Oil Painting

2024

Artist Comments
A vineyard stretches out with bold, loose brushwork and a dark underpainting that highlights form and color. The radiating rows of grapevines create a focused composition, guiding the viewer's eye toward the defined mountains. To the left, hazy hills in the distance add depth, while the palette contrasts blue and yellow greens. Bright light at the horizon transitions into a glowing sky, where cornflower blue peeks through dreamy ochre clouds.

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: vineyard, countryside, clouds, sky, field, mountain, hill, sunset, panoramic, wine country, Oregon, Italy, sky, impressionism, landscape, oil painting, green

Wine Country XI
Mandy Main
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2024
24 in. h x 48 in. w x 1.5 in. d
6 lbs. 0 oz.