Charis Carmichael Braun

Rocky Forms

2018

Shawn Krueger's "The Evening Walk" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts trees on a sloping hillside cocooned by bright orange light of a setting sun. About the Artist: Shawn Krueger, born 1973, is a contemporary landscape painter whose work sits comfortably in both the American Tonalist and Arts & Crafts traditions. Shawn received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Calvin College in 1998, studying under Chris Stoffel...

Kirsten Savage's "Unbroken Silence" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a larger than life man asleep at the base of a mountain range that stretches into the distance....

Rob Alexander's "Over the Pass" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an arctic landscape where a mysterious castle perched on a snowy mount...

Rob Alexander's "Sunlit Heights" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts snow capped blue mountains rising from the mist. This painting is c...

Girl with Aperitivo No. 2 Oil on canvas panel 16” x 12” This Florentine painting by James Crandall was painted in the summer of 2024 by the Duomo in Florence. It is oil on a cotto...

An oil painting, painted en plein air of a live concert performance. Musicians are seen on stage playing various instruments in front of a sizable audience. A wall and tower like str...

"Friday Morning in Sag Harbor" is an oil painting of a small village Main Street painted en plein air by Amy Florence. Framed in gold tradition frame made in Italy, 18 x 21.5 inches...

Painted from life, the artist standing on a street corner looking across to three buildings lit by ambient street lights. Rising up behind the city is a dark mass, a hill silhouetted against the comparatively brighter blue night sky. Signed "Personett" lower right corner. Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim. Framed dimensions: 17 x 15 inches Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes. Artist Statement My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian painters...