Valerie Berkely

Floral Study 3, Abstract Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
Blooming flowers fill the vase evoking a sense of abundance despite its small stature. Artist Valerie Berkely presents the abstract floral using a limited palette of transparent purple and yellow tones. She demonstrates expressive finger painting by feeling the soft, velvety surface she specially prepares. "I relied on a dry application of oil paint that feels more like a pastel," says Valerie.

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: glow, floral, fingerpainting, flowers, flora, bouquet, abstract, small, oilpaint, vase, abstract, flora, oil painting, green

Floral Study 3
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.