Mandy Main

Early Spring, Oil Painting

2018

Artist Comments
A serene contemporary landscape that is both peaceful and uplifting. Atmospheric perspective creates an expansive feeling of depth and panorama. In the foreground, shadowed recesses carved into velvety grasslands add interesting geometric forms. In the mid-ground, radiating field furrows pull the eye towards the silhouettes of distant mountains and a small body of water. Above the horizon, clouds flow against an aqua blue sky.

About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.

Words that describe this painting: landscape, clouds, sky, field, hills, landscape, realism, representational, oil painting

Early Spring
Mandy Main
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2018
24 in. h x 24 in. w x 1.5 in. d
2 lbs. 5 oz.