Edie Nadelhaft

"May 27 (8.59pm)" - Motoring Road Highway Landscape Painting

2021-2025

Night driving road scene by Edie Nadelhaft - oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches Edie Nadelhaft's paintings focus on the visual nuances and psychological ambi...

Landscape painting, deserted beach road scene titled "Race Point Road" by Edie Nadelhaft - oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches Edie Nadelhaft's paintings focus o...

Landscape painting, evening road scene titled "Long Pond Road Again" by Edie Nadelhaft - oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches Edie Nadelhaft's paintings focus on the visual nuances and psychological ambiguity of twilight. No people are pictured, but each composition preserves some residue of the human presence, depicting desolate stretches of rural highway, some capped by an apocalyptic canopy of clouds. Rendered in a manner best described as Perceptual Realism, Nadelhaft draws the viewer into the scene, showing just as much - or as little - sharp detail as a human eye can process in person. The point of view and style of painting takes into account the fleeting nature of impressions, especially those formed while driving in low light on unfamiliar roads. In some scenes, light is greatly diminished, but it is not quite dark enough to reap the full benefit of headlights. Buildings, trees and power lines appear and disappear in a murky, shimmering haze; nighttime is fluid, rife with intrigue and for some, even dread. But the dark can also provide a portal to the imagination, opening up new possibilities and potential. And for the artist, it brings an overwhelming sense of wonder and relief. The night - especially traveling at night - offers protection, a respite, like a spell that conjures a brief suspension of responsibility and time as one hurtles through space fully enveloped in the totality of that experience. Realism, landscape painting, landscape, night scape...

Night driving road landscape scene by Edie Nadelhaft Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches. Edie Nadelhaft's paintings focus on the visual nuances and psychol...

b. 1960 Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting....

A few words of the artist about his art: When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...

Gain a new perspective with this energetic landscape with electric strokes. Blue skies and fluffy clouds are just down the road. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes wit...