Gwyneth Leech

53W53 Rising, View from 54th Street, August, Impressionist skyline painting

2018

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...

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...

Both spare and dynamic, Karl Hartman’s hyper-saturated countrysides and surreal depictions of Americana perfectly match the vividness of our late-summer heatwave. Hartman’s tightly c...

"Wind-up" is a surreal oil painting on wood that invites viewers into a quiet, dreamlike landscape. Painted in rich greens with soft gradients of light, the work features a rhythmic ...

Tall and elegant, a cypress cedar, the iconic tree that dots the countryside in Tuscany stands in the center of this painting by Sylvain Louis-Seize. The Montreal-born artist is know...

A landscape, re-imagined in bold colours that contrast dark and light, this is the work of Sylvain Louis-Seize. As a young boy, the Montreal artist beg...

At 11 years of age, Sylvain Louis-Seize was already painting on the sidewalks of his Montreal neighbourhood. True to his early street art origins, Louis-Seize uses bold colours and a...

Eagle Creek Trail, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon - Stylized Landscape in Acrylic Stylized landscape by Central Oregon artist Tirzah Lane (American, 20th Ce...