Christopher Reilly

Generations, encaustic and mixed media painting, butterflies, turquoise, yellow

2021

Expedition II, depicts an underwater ocean scene. Acrylic on canvas painting by Ben Darby, with raised texture throughout. Tigers have been added for ...

"The Factory Builds Eternally East" depicts a open skies and city lights. This scene is of no particular place, but rather Carpenter's interpretation and compilation of various places he has visited. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul...

"Lost Between The Details" depicts a open skies and city lights. This scene is of no particular place, but rather Carpenter's interpretation and compilation of various places he has visited. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul Collection...

"Descending Towards Now," oil on wood painting by artist Todd Carpenter depicts a remote landscape of leafless trees being nourished by a running stream. Imagine this is a past route...

In this contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on panel, a peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale blue, canary yellow, light orange, and pale maroon red is accented ...

A peaceful landscape scene is set in shades of atmospheric sky blue with pale yellow and ivory accented with sculptural elements along the bottom in green and ochre in this contempor...

A peaceful landscape scene in shades of light blue with pale yellow and ivory, this encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with oil, pigments from Morocco and India, volcanic ash fro...

A peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale blue and light yellow accented with teal blue, yellow and orange sculptural details along the lower part of the composition. Tall, grac...