Valerie Berkely

Coming through It, Abstract Oil Painting

2021

Artist Comments
An atmospheric view of early spring, with the first hints of color warming the sleepy landscape. "I am often inspired by the work of William Turner, where the light and mist dominate the air," says artist Valerie Berkely. She developed her own special process of pre-texturing the canvas before fingerpainting intuitively with a limited color palette.

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: Turner, landscape, mist, clouds, sky, fingerpainting, dreamy, soft, spring, field, clearing, abstract, landscape, non-representational, oil painting, purple

Coming through It
Valerie Berkely
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2021
20 in. h x 16 in. w x .75 in. d
2 lbs. 0 oz.