Eric Hesse Art

Artist Statement: Painting is a meditation and a kind of alchemy in which I concentrate and transform my feelings and memories into something material that can be experienced in various ways by others. In this recent body of work, I draw on my deep love of nature: the impressions from my new rural life Upstate and in the Berkshires...

A peaceful landscape scene is set in shades of blue with pale ivory in this contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with oil paint, pigments from Morocco and India, volca...

Von Rosk paints from inside the plant mass, not above it. The viewpoint is low — knee-height maybe — and the zinnias and sunflowers crowd the frame until sky is almost an afterthough...

Contemporary Impressionist Encaustic Landscape Painting "Spring Snow", made by Regina Quinn in 2023 Encaustic, oil with wax, and India Ink on panel 16 x 12 inches, 17.25 x 13.25 x 2...

"After the Thunderstorm" made in 2025 by Regina Quinn encaustic and oil on panel 12 x 12 inches Custom framed in walnut floater frame, 14 x 14 x 2 inches framed. " Beginning with w...

Artist Statement: Painting is a meditation and a kind of alchemy in which I concentrate and transform my feelings and memories into something material that can be experienced in var...

Encaustic, abstracted, impressionistic landscape of a wintry forest at evening "Snow at Dusk" made in 2024 by Regina Quinn encaustic, India ink, and oil with wax on panel 24 x 24 x 2...

Silver and Gold (Abstract Landscape of Winter Forest in Blue & Yellow Encaustic) by Regina Quinn 2024 encaustic, India ink, and oil with wax on panel 6 x 6 unframed / 8 x 8 framed "...

Expressionist style encaustic landscape on green mountains against a stormy grey sky "Approaching Storm" by Regina Quinn, made in 2024 oil paint and encaustic on panel 24 x 36 inches...

Artist Statement: Painting is a meditation and a kind of alchemy in which I concentrate and transform my feelings and memories into something material that can be experienced in var...

This scene echoes Aeling’s earlier years exploring Yellowstone and the northern Rockies, where geothermal landscapes and severe winters formed a visual laboratory for him. The stark verticals of dead trees rising through steam and snow evoke the quiet violence of natural forces—eruption, freeze, regrowth. Aeling often spoke of landscapes as records of time, and this painting exemplifies that belief: it is both serene and charged with memory, documenting a terrain shaped by fire, water, and cold. That sense of elemental transformation is deepened by the medium itself. This is the only encaustic painting found in his studio following his death—a rare departure from his familiar oil technique. The wax-based process, involving heat, layering, and an almost geological buildup of surface, mirrors the very forces depicted in the scene. It stands as a singular artifact in his oeuvre, a final and poignant testament to his fascination with how material, time, and natural forces converge. Jeff Aeling Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone encaustic on panel 48h x 34w in 121.92h x 86.36w cm JAE041 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings...

This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...