Seth Winegar

"Lunch Time" (2023) by Seth Winegar, Oil painting, Black Cows

2023

David Shingler's (NC based) "Moab Plateaus" is an oil painting that depicts the vast desert dotted with grasses leading to the towering plateaus of Moab...

High Over Madurai

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Searching for Sunrise" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape with vast mountains and valleys echoing the swirling motion of the clouds overhead Bio/artist statement: Todd Carpenter is a Los Angeles based artist who uses black and white paint to explore the perception of space and beauty. Carpenter's formal education is in science - he holds a MS in Neuroscience from UCSD and a BS in Psychobiology from UCLA - and he brings this background into service when making art. His paintings explore the mechanisms of perception and aesthetics, examining among other things how the depiction of light can impart realism and convey emotion. Like his paintings bridging art and science, Carpenter's career has similarly straddled the two fields, and he has taught subjects ranging from neuroscience and environmental science to photography and painting. Artist Statement As a painter, I am particularly interested in how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. Painting, as with any visual art, is obviously dependent on light. But painting can also have a more specific connection in that the accurate depiction of light is crucial for achieving realism. Realism in paintings largely arises from the portrayal of depth - perceiving a painting as being realistic is equivalent to seeing its subject as existing in more than just the two dimensions of the picture plane - and one of the mechanisms by which humans perceive depth is through lighting cues. Light creates features such as shading, shadow, and contrast that tell us about the three-dimensional arrangement of our surroundings, and artists often use these features to impart realism to paintings. Light also factors in to the emotional impact of paintings. The differential illumination of our surroundings can evoke different moods, as evidenced by the influence sunsets, candlelight, and darkness can have on us. Such effectssuggest that our perception of light could be tied to primitive instincts, with light signaling factors such as shelter, nightfall, and warmth, which were once crucial for survival. The depiction of light in...

Todd Carpenter's (US based) "Where no one Hears" is an oil painting that depicts a black and white landscape full of dense trees and foliage, with glittering sunlight peeking through...

Attributed by Wilhelm von Gegerfelt (1844—1920). The disheveled crowns of the trees indicate to us the raging wind, and the evening sky in the background...

JOAQUÍN SOROLLA Y BASTIDA Spanish, 1863 - 1923 PUERTO DE JÁVEA signed and dated "J. Sorolla B. / 1905" (lower right) oil on canvas on cardboard 7 x 8 inches (18 x 20.5 cm.) framed: 1...

A fluidly painted impression of this well known sailors' haven at Pin Mill on the River Orwell, Suffolk. Hugh Boycott Brown (1909-1990) Thames Bar...

A wonderful summer sky in this well known Suffolk view. Geoffrey Chatten ( born 1942) Shingle Street, Suffolk Signed Oil on board 14 x 21 inches inc...