Carole Garland

BRANCHING OUT

2022

From the artist: "Solstice Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains was a retreat from the hectic pace of urban life. Sitting by the Solstice Creek, my painter friend and I relished the quiet except for the murmur of the stream, water bubbling over stone pebbles...

"Africa Trees" is an oil painting inspired by travel in the Hwang National Park in Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. Close to the edge of the Kalahari Desert, it is the largest national ...

Creekside one can see the rocks, pebbles and leaves at the bottom of the stream or the viewer can observe the water's surface: floating bugs, bubbles, ripples and reflections, but it's difficult to catch the bottom and the surface simultaneously. However, the photographer or artist can capture the stream's surface and pebble strewn bottom at once. Carole Garland set this as her goal in this painting from her "Reflection" series. Carole Garland graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., and studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas in Mexico City. Outdoor workshops with plein air painters Frank Serrano...

Afterglow - Oil painter and fine artist Carole Garland chose as her subject this rosette succulent Echeveria or commonly known as Afterglow with its bell-shaped flowers. The sharp an...

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vastness” and instill feelings of awe in his viewers, he says. Furthering his exploration of the abstract, Barkoff paints in his studio, rather than en plein air, fabricating landscapes from his visual and emotional memories. The Impressionist-turned-Expressionist painter is inspired by the atmospheric qualities of works by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner and cites Gerhard Richter as a more contemporary influence. He recently transitioned from using a paintbrush to using a squeegee and palette knives for his work, as the latter allow for greater spontaneity and manipulation of color. He says of his work: “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it’s all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monet’s Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.” “The landscape is what I see before me or from my mind’s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, I’m not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that’s what a photograph does). I’m trying to express my inner spirit in the painting – to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.” “My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings – my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas. When I get into this altered state...

Artist Commentary: trying new approaches using some drip techniques and squeegee with hand painting Words that describe this piece: green,yellow,blue,landscape, drip, season, organ...

Majestic Reflections 12.0 x 16.0 x 1.0, 2.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "I shot the photo reference for this piece by looking into a p...