Valerie Berkely

Thunder, Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
"Thunder only happens when it's going to rain," says artist Valerie Berkely. The shoreline exudes a moody ambiance with its hues of purple and blue illuminated by a warm yellow glow. Using her fingers, Valerie adds a unique texture to her art. With the smooth application of paint, she captures a sense of softness in the dramatic seascape.

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: shore, thunder, clouds, stormy, drama, soft, finger-painting, mood, oilpaint, ethereal, seascape, water, cloudscape, impressionism, impressionism, seascape, oil painting, purple

Thunder
Valerie Berkely
Oil painting on cradled wood panel
Natural wood edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2023
24 in. h x 18 in. w x 1.5 in. d
4 lbs. 5 oz.