Anyck Alvarez Kerloch

Eucalyptus, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2020

Acrylic on unmounted canvas. Open window looking with curtains. A still life in the foreground and a landsacape out the window. It is summer time in the afternoon, and a light breez...

Still lifes of vases and simple fruits in the house that the artist knows how to breathe into the paintings are really beautiful, and give the viewer a feeling of lightness and purity. Hanging still life...

'Bright Light' from Stephanie Peek, who makes her home in California, is beautifully rendered with a sense of depth, intellect, timelessness, and mystery. An elegant painting referencing dried eucalyptus leaves that the artist piled up in her studio and studied under a variety of natural and man-made lighting arrangements, as well as at various times of day and night. Oil on panel with natural alabaster ground into the pigments. The painting celebrates natures abstract qualities with a realist's approach. Peek has floated tulips, roses and other flowers and leaves from 17th century still life paintings through the dark smoky atmosphere of her paintings of night...

This painting is part of a series that reflects the beauty of the plant world from an unusual perspective - through an intense macro view. These are semi-abstract canvases where the...