Valerie Berkely

Floral Study 2, Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
Using a limited palette of transparent purples and yellows, artist Valerie Berkely presents a calming abstract floral. "I want the work to glow," states Valerie. She demonstrates expressive finger painting by feeling the soft, velvety surface she specially prepares. The misty and foggy atmosphere evokes the feeling of vastness despite its small size.

About the Artist
Valerie Berkely uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”

Words that describe this painting: soft, glow, bouquet, misty, foggy, fingerprinting, small, oilpaint, flowers, flora, expressionism, flora, oil painting, purple

Floral Study 2
Valerie Berkely
Oil painting on flat wood panel
Natural wood edges
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2023
6 in. h x 6 in. w x .25 in. d
0 lbs. 4 oz.