Warren Keating

Spring Shadows and Straw Hat, Oil Painting

2025

Artist Comments
This contemporary figurative painting captures the tranquil beauty of a gardener strolling down a garden path, viewed from above. The focal point is the gardener, whose large straw hat casts a delicate shadow over her light-colored shirt. She carries a bucket of gardening tools and wears relaxed blue pants, adding a touch of casual charm to the composition. The ground is a vibrant interplay of sunlight and shadow, rendered in rich, earthy tones.

About the Artist
Artist Warren Keating captures the motion of walking figures and conveys the immediacy of fleeting moments in his artwork. He documents his subjects on video through birds-eye views, translating their details with oil paint using an approach he describes as Pixel Impressionism. His inspiration for this series came from a Paris vacation, where he photographed passersby from his hotel balcony in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. “My art captures the imagination by looking fairly photo-realistic at a distance but very expressive, abstract, and gestural up close,” says Warren. He works in a spacious, slightly cluttered studio with plenty of natural light, conveniently located next to his house in Santa Fe. Outside his creative pursuits, Warren enjoys spending time with family, engaging in outdoor activities, and traveling to gather new life experiences and future references for his compositions. His paintings have earned features on CNN, the LA Times, and the Huffington Post.

Words that describe this painting: gardener, figurative, garden, aerial view, pixelated, expressive, directional, pictorial modernism, plants, spring, Mountain West, outdoor, women, woman, back, shirt, hat, perspective, garden, impressionism, people, oil painting, beige

Spring Shadows and Straw Hat
Warren Keating
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2025
16 in. h x 20 in. w x 1.5 in. d
4 lbs. 0 oz.