Daryl Hastings

Allegro, original 30x40 abstract expressionist transitional landscape

The epitome of low country living are the memories made while boating, swimming and fishing and stomping though the weeds along your favorite waterways. The friends and family stop b...

Life is blessed with magic and then more magic! In this multi-faceted abstract expressionist landscape, painted with many nuances of color, and the extensive use of impasto layering to add emphasis, North Carolina artist...

A bright, exciting day deserving of "laudato," praise, was the challenge for this abstract expressionist oil painting by artist Dmitri Wright, who also used impressionist and contemporary elements to create the mood of giving unlimited praise not specific in time or place. Feeling the healing light and inspiration emanating from the yellows and whites, with saturated colors in contrast, coupled with the impasto texture and the artist's confident brush strokes, the result is a contemporary oil painting that will never grow old or tired. It will be forever be an inspiration and reminder of the greater good. Director of the Weir Farm National Historic Site Art Academy, Dmitri Wright, teaches art at this rare venue as well as at Old Lyme's Florence Griswold...

Dimanche Cote d'Azur, Sunday on the French Riviera, is forever bathing in glowing sunlight, reflecting the sun's golden rays throughout her storied landscape and azure blue waters. It is indeed one of Europe's most adored waterfronts. Artist Dmitri Wright, Director of the Weir Farm National Historic Site Art Academy, where he teaches art in addition to teaching painting at the venerable Florence Griswold Museum, both of Connecticut, punctuates this contemporary oil painting with impasto paint, highlighting the joy to behold relaxing along the renowned French coastline. Wright studied art at Cooper Union, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. His work has been exhibited at three museums among other notable venues. In 2008 Wright taught a series of painting classes at a private estate in Cap d'Antibes, one of the most exclusive spots on the Riviera...

"Foret en Hiver" ("Winter Forest"), an oil on canvas by Sophie Dumont, masterfully captures the atmosphere and essence of a winter forest through a remarkable knife painting techniqu...

Seaside abstract landscape in Normandy (France). oil on canvas worked with a knife in multiple layers bringing an interesting texture The artist paints the seaside in a semi-abstract...

Abstract colorful countryside landscape. The artist appropriates this Normandy countryside where the fields are increasingly disappearing in favor of urbanization. She captures every...

Abstract countryside landscape with colored plots worked in oil on linen canvas.. The construction takes precedence over the motif, the artist works on his composition until he finds...