John Howitt Landscape Paintings

The painting was painted from life on a sunny early summer morning in Bavaria on the banks of the Main River. We see the rising sun tinting the treetops on the mountain slope across ...

A Fine depiction of an Gaff Yachts in the open ocean. For this wonderful depiction of 19th Century sailing ships, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the figures on the boat ...

The painting was created on Oʻahu, Hawaii, early in the morning during the winter storm season. In the distance, the ocean appears dark, while closer to the shore it shifts into an e...

Louisiana Bayou Landscape, Oil on Panel — 46 x 40.5 in — Jill Hackney, 2025 "A native of New Orleans, Jill Hackney studied painting at The Cleveland Institute of Art and Louisiana S...

Oil on canvas Signed lower right Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who / what can we believe? Who / what can we trust? How real is our view of the world? And how is that perspective angled, and ultimately limited? These are the issues at the heart of my work as an artist. Painting, drawing, engraving and embroidery give me the freedom to approach my subjects from an ambivalent and flexible standpoint. I am building up a dynamic body of work, like pieces that you can put together in one way or another to shape different structures, pierced with numerous openings. And the title that I give each piece acts as a possible clue as to how to enter inside that system. I can portray both softness and monstrosities. I focus on the links and barriers lying between living beings and their surroundings, and evoke how permeable these connections are. My aim is not to create a visual documentary reporting fact, but rather immerse myself in observing everyday life, and in a host of images depicting real events (pictures, photos and videos). Instilled with these images, I can give a more personalized, unique and allegorical vision of the world around me. I am also interested in the key transition periods of human existence, those turning points that forge our identity within a family, a group, and society as a whole at the heart of a specific environment. I centre on what makes up and creates cohesion (rituals, myths and tales….), and indeed the opposite - what leads to life becoming shattered, hindered and frustrated (moving populations, exile and migration…) Amidst a landscape roaming with wild beasts and hybrid creatures, between love and separation, metaphors for our own desires and fears lie in hiding, or reveal themselves in the painted or embroidered spaces. Sometimes they are etched with lines, symbols and tiny architectural designs. These works might depict our inner landscapes, as if harking back to a primordial and cosmic point of origin. My most recent collections recreate the images of bodies or landscapes using abstract zones and figurative details that have no direct link with either anatomy or geography. Intimacy and the unspeakable are themes that run throughout my work, and I make sure to incorporate areas of both visual tension and relief, so as to give the viewer the space to project him or herself into the work. And here, such paradoxes can only be reached through the interplay between abstraction and figuration.” 2 / Thierry Delcourt Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author of works on the process of artistic creation, and the conditions of existential and social creativity : "Entering into the world of Hélène Duclos in her drawings, paintings, embroidery and words means letting yourself be carried away by a torrent towards strange shores of creation where only a few artists have ever dared to venture. As if perched on a watchtower on the threshold of different worlds, Hélène Duclos throws us out of our depth, plunging us into spaces filled with destitute mankind, and guiding us through her stem-like maze of a scheme, bristling with roots and clues. But the mystery here, like a poetic, human rebus that never ends, only compels us to take a closer look.” 3 / Hélène Duclos ‘s biography : After graduating from the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris with a degree in textile design, I set off on a six-month sea voyage from Vannes in Brittany, to Dakar. On returning to France, I set up my atelier...

Hawaiian landscape painting, plein air, ocean and coastal scene. The painting was created from life in Hawaii in late summer, on an intens...

Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is i...

This painting was painted from life on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, in spring during the rainy season. Such weather feels unexpected in Hawaii, where bright sun usually defines ...

The painting was created on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, at the end of the day, when the light of the setting sun bathes the shoreline and rocks in soft golden and ochre tones. At t...

Oil on canvas Signed Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being alive – What is it to be a living being? Who /...

spring landscape, reflections, puddles, trees, small painting, plein air, American art A small plein-air study painted in spring in a quiet provincial town. "That year, the snow m...

spring fishing, spring landscape, small town, fishermen, plein air, American art A small plein-air study painted from life in early spring. The snow has already melted, the first p...