Gwyneth Leech

One Vanderbilt Façade Progress, July, impressionist cityscape 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...

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...

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, ...

This small painting by Emma Tapley captures the reflection of New York City's Flatiron Building in the fountain pool of Madison Square Park, rendered in lush greens and blues. Tapley...

French Impressionist oil on canvas view of trees on a riverbank in all their colourful autumn glory by Francoise Hinard. Initialled bottom right. Hin...

An artwork filled with vibrant colour and painted with a free and expressive use of acrylic paint on canvas.  'This lovely dell is all my own' is a quiet shady spot beside a lake wit...

Inspired by a walk through the woods at Blickling Rachael Dalzell’s paintings are colourful and expressive. Her free and lively use of paint through various techniques, mean that...

There is a silent eloquence In every wild bluebell That fills my softened heart with bliss That words could never tell. Extract from “The Bluebell” by Anne Bronte...