Clare Haley

On Days Like This

Blessed with natural artistic ability and finding encouragement from her family at an early age, Sally Swatland has traveled the proper paths to find herself in a unique place: the foremost American woman painting children at the seashore. With a romanticized nod to yesteryear, Swatland's characters are innocent and fair, in an array of matching springtime and summery apparel. Adept with brush and palette knife, she blends many artistic influences and styles into her own unique presentations. This painting features a fair-haired young girl dipping her feet in the shallow waters along a rocky shoreline. The sea behind is a brilliant blue with small white-capped waves rolling into shore. The brushwork alternates between smooth strokes in the child's form and dress and more impasto work and sharper edges on the rocks and in the more active parts of the sea. The overall effect is that of being at the sea and finding serenity in the contrast between the calm shore and the always moving ocean. The seas' eternal inspiration form a common backdrop to many of Swatland's artistic works. Born in Washington D.C., her family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut and often summered at Tod's Point, Long Island Sound. She would go on to become an art major at Mount Saint Vincent College, study under Robert Schulz in the Art Students League of New York, and come to be represented early by Alistair Stair in his New York and Florida galleries...

Brian Blood (American, b. 1962) Fisherman's Wharf - SF, 2002 Oil on board Signed lower left 'BB' Verso is titled, dated, and signed Board: 9 x 12 inches In a brown wooden vintage fr...

Oil on board Board size: 18 x 13.5 inches Framed size: 27 x 22.5 inches Signed lower right

Oil on board Board size: 15.25 x 13.25 inches Framed size: 21 x 19 inches Signed lower right Further signed and inscribed verso

This piece, "Saffron Clearing", is a 36x36 oil painting on board by artist Carol Young featuring a vibrant barn in the midst of a yellow golden field and deep blue sky. The barn is a bluish violet with a scarlet red roof. A line of dark green trees are on the horizon. Young's use of complimentary colors make this painting jump out towards the viewer. About the artist: “I've always been an artist. At a young age I painted rocks...

Autumn day. 1979, cardboard, oil, 50x70 cm Colorful landscape with trees in blue, pink, yellow, red colors Valdis Bush (1924-2014) studied at the Art acad...

Oak. 1997, oil on canvas and cardboard, 70x50 cm Colorful landscape wit oak tree Valdis Bush (1924-2014) studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors...

A beautiful snapshot of the English countryside with the vibrant yellow of the gorse standing out against the blue sky. Presented in a most attractive hand made frame. Dominic Parcz...

​Helen Taylor (Contemporary) Day Dreamer Signed with monogram, inscribed with title verso Oil on board 10 x 12 inches 11½ x 13½ inches including the frame Helen Taylor’s practice fo...

A really striking image of birds in flight over crashing waves Adrian Parnell (b.1952) Birdscape Signed with initials Inscribed with title and date verso Oil on board 24 x 20 inches...