Claire McConaughy

Suede Blue Lake, impressionist landscape painting

2019

A narrative from the artist: "It belonged to a Hermit Thrush, which has one of the most beautiful songs in all of nature. Give it a listen on Audubon. A...

Bray has explored a smaller, more demure 8.5 x 11 inch format for two of these casein on panel paintings. When coupled with his rich palette and tightly hatched bed of brushstrokes, ...

Alan Bray’s landscape paintings of his native, central Maine explore the ever-ebbing dynamic between nature and humanity. His paintings capture an asymmetrical pas de deux. Painted with uncompromising precision by his quick-drying casein tempera paint, Bray’s trailheads, shorelines, and vast horizons show evidence of previous human presence as it succumbs to natural growth. Bray’s stylized scenes center on these afterimages of human interference as well as other natural phenomena. Inundated with detail, nature reclaims swaths of scarred land, fallen trees, and dilapidated structures, returning them to their wild form. Natural phenomena such as wild overgrowth, animal tracks, mysterious forms, bogs, and mist are resplendently captured as homage to the rugged and uninhabited corners of secluded Maine. Alan Bray builds his landscapes with numerous layers of quick-drying casein tempera. Often used in Italian Renaissance painting...

The latest painting from Alan Bray is a rare and exotic sighting, indeed. He’s shifted his focus away from the human realm and up to the skies, capturing an empty bird’s nest camoufl...

Ernest Biddle (American, 1919-1970) Untitled Coastal Town, Likely New England, 20th century Oil on canvas 16 x 20 x 1/2 in. Signed lower left: Biddle The great grandson of the found...

Geraldine Sanger Untitled, 1983 Oil on canvas 22 x 27 3/4 in. Framed: 24 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Signed and dated lower right

In Katharina Husslein's floral-themed paintings, her profound connection to nature and deep inspiration drawn from flowers are unmistakable. Through her textural and abstract approac...

This painting is enveloped in the enchantment of a winter morning, where every cold sunbeam caresses the snow-covered peaks of the pine forest. The reflection of the tree trunks in t...