Bethanne Kinsella Cople

Provence Vista by Bethanne Cople, Oil painting South of France landscape

2024

With a nod to Shakespeare, we can readily count the ways we love Laura Shubert’s light-and energy-filled paintings. We admire her deft way of capturing luminosity as it plays off her...

The American landscape – endless skies, calming waters and the varied shores of the East and West coasts - are Cople’s passion and she travels far and wide to capture her subjects. “I love painting the landscape en plein air. In the outdoors, exposed to the sun, wind and rain, you can incorporate not only what you see, but also the sounds and the smells of the landscape. All of this lets me convey the sense of wonder I feel at the subject,” says Cople. Undeterred by nature’s extremes, Cople has painted in blizzards in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah; on the precarious cliffs of Monhegan Island, Maine; in howling gales off the California coast; and, of course, in both summer and winter in her beloved Eastern Shore of Maryland and Potomac River...

"Feeling Roostery!" is an original oil painting by Cathryn Ruvalcaba. Here, she depicts a colorful rooster strutting though a green pasture. Cathryn paints in the Russian Impressioni...

An oil painting on board by Irving Manoir depicting a California landscape with hay shocks circa the 1940s. Irving Kraut Manoir earned a reputation as painter and art teacher, and ...