Allison Chambers

Where I Belong by Allison Chambers, Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting

2023

Created a decade before Nepo's passing, is signed lower left. A fourth-generation French artist, Christian Nepo had art in his blood. His great grandfather was Ivan Chichkine, a noted Russian painter whose works hangs in a Museum of St. Petersburg. A student of Impressionism and an advocate of “en plein air” paintings, Nepo (as he signed his paintings) began painting seascapes and beach scenes during his frequent holidays on the coasts of Normandy and Brittany. Many of his paintings are reminiscent of pre-impressionist work: ominous skies...

Allison’s softly rendered and beautifully painted landscapes and waterscapes capture light, depth and the constantly shifting movement of water, flora and fauna. Her impasto techniq...

Impressionist oil painting of Scotland's Pittenweem harbor at twilight, title 'Pittenweem Evening' East Neuk of Fife, by Scottish artist John McGhie. Signe...

Artist Edward Cucuel and his wife Clara Lotte von Marcard spent their first two decades together in Germany, mostly in a villa on Lake Ammersee in Holzhausen near Munich. It is the works created in this period, mainly outdoor scenes of young women in fashionable attire of the day, that are most collected and appreciated among his works. It’s easy to see why- they capture an elegance and sense of calm and easy leisure- of long days in gardens or by the water.  This is one of those captured moments with a well-dressed woman watching the sailing yacht...