Alan Bray

Cotton Grass

2014

'Mushroom Rock' by Dennis Blagg. 2020. Oil on Canvas. 20 x 16." 3,600. Contemporary American landscape oil painting of the 'Mushroom Rock,' geological formation in Ellsworth County ...

Beautiful large floral acrylic on canvas by Canadian-Russian artist Elena Henderson. Artwork is 48" tall by 60" wide, currently unframed. "I became an...

Ericeira Original Figurative Watercolor on Archival Cotton Paper This figurative watercolor painting comes to life, transporting us to the sun-drenched shores of a pristine beach aga...

Bay Watercolor on Archival Cotton Paper This landscape watercolor painting reveals itself, transporting us to a serene bay where nature's harmonious beauty unfolds.The artist's brush...

Contemporary impressionist flowers dancing in a garden. Bold rich colors painted in acrylic paint on paper. Strong spontaneous use of a pallet knife layering color upon color that sh...

"My life as a painter began in the late 1950s when abstraction was “The only game in town”. I followed and progressed through gesture, organic and finally, geometric non-objective painting. The radical move for me was to discover that the real world of landscape lurked behind all that past work. My childhood in the mountains of Pennsylvania pervaded my “way of seeing” and I wanted to investigate and celebrate the infinite variety of tone, color and composition that I found around me. Sky, the structure of trees, mist and water appeared to fill a hunger to look again and again. There was mystery and danger lurking behind the beauty, and my aim was to try to avoid the cliché and explore the infinite structure of the visual landscape. Now I use my camera as a sketchbook and search for images that seem to offer odd structure and “mystery”. I shoot multiple points of view, cull, crop, and mostly discard. The surviving photographs become the catalyst for the paintings and the process is always a mediation between memory and the small image pinned to my easel...