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. Main 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. Main 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, Main achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.
Flight Path II, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Sweeping, layered clouds fill the sky, creating a dramatic contrast between light and shadow. Gentle waves with soft white foam at their crest roll towards the ...
Oil
Wine Country XI, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vineyard stretches out with bold, loose brushwork and a dark underpainting that highlights form and color. The radiating rows of grapevines create a focused...
Oil
Awakening IV, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A dreamy, atmospheric landscape captures the sunrise over a coastal sanctuary. The sun peeks over the horizon, its white glow casting a glimmer on the waterâ€...
Oil
Red Road XVI, Abstract Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A scarlet road moves forward into the distance through a soft-focused countryside creating a contemporary atmospheric landscape. "The eye moves around the com...
Oil
Luminance, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A panoramic seascape captures a vast ocean stretching under a dramatic sky. Sweeping clouds in shades of grey, warm blues, and white create a dynamic contrast b...
Oil
Bucolic Valley, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vibrant, loosely rendered landscape captures a serene and expansive rural scene. In the foreground, bright green fields with varied shading create depth and t...
Oil
Majestic Cascade, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Loose, lively brushwork depicts a cascading waterfall flowing over a rocky cliff. Water tumbles down into a pool below, its spray and movement creating a sense ...
Oil
Joshua Tree III, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A dramatic desert landscape from a low vantage point gives the iconic Joshua Tree boulders a powerful presence. A dark, twisting tree reaches upward with organi...
Oil
Red Field XXI, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Rows of vibrant green and earthy red plants sweep diagonally across the rolling landscape, creating a pattern that draws the eye in. The loose brushwork contras...
Oil
Golden Light IV, Abstract Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An abstract landscape with a warm, earthy palette depicts mountains with a river gorge in between. Energetic strokes of light on the horizon leap into the sky...
Oil
Oasis, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A close-up painting depicts the Palm Canyon stream nestling among rocks and desert vegetation. Clusters of grasses and desert plants grow along the banks, their...
Oil
Dune Grass III, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Soft clouds drift across the sky in this serene coastal landscape. A narrow stretch of brown and green dune grasses extends diagonally into the distance. At the...
Oil
Road Trip VI, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main presents an expansive, glowing landscape with an accentuated perspective that pulls the eye deep into the distance. "The impressive momentum...
Oil
The Road Home II, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vast landscape unfolds beneath a sweeping, dynamic sky. Fields of green and yellow hint at lush grass and vegetation, while intersecting pathways guide the ey...
Oil
Cactus Apples, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A quiet desert vista in Joshua Tree National Park basks in cool afternoon light. In the foreground, a cluster of prickly pear cacti with soft blue-green pads, t...
Oil
Cholla Cactus, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
As the sun sets behind the Joshua Tree Cholla Garden, the backlit plants glow with halos as their fine, bristling spines catch the light, both delicate and unto...
Oil
Desert Sunset, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Palm trees and desert vegetation frame a road stretching into the distance. At the horizon, purple mountains rise under a sky filled with multicolored clouds. A...
Oil
Eucalyptus at the Marina, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This plein air painting captures a eucalyptus tree shimmering in the warm late afternoon light. Behind an embankment, only the masts of sailboats and the roofli...
Oil
Superbloom in Tuscany, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main paints a vast Tuscan countryside. A field of red poppies dazzles in the foreground as masses of impossibly bright yellow rapeseed flourish in the background. Mandy paints the nearby hills shrouded in vibrant blues and greens as the far mountains recede into the distance with gray tones. She suggests natural elements throughout the scene with loose brushwork.
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...
Oil
Red Sky at Night, Abstract Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A vertical column of fiery light resembles a glowing flame set against a dramatic sky. A reflective surface below suggests the presence of water, mirroring th...
Oil
Majestic River, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A river gorge reflects the calm colors of the expansive sky filled with soft, billowy clouds. Distant hills lining the horizon fade into mist. A dreamy atmosp...
Oil
Aerial Dramatics XXIV, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main presents an uplifting, light-filled landscape of vast green fields and limitless skies. The breathtaking vista combines old-world realism wi...
Oil
Chasing Lancelot, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Traveling in England's Cotswolds region, I sought out a number of impressive gardens designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown," shares artist Mandy Main. "This estate, Croome Court, has a colorful history, including its 1979 purchase by John Lennon for use as a Hare Krishna...
Oil
Tranquil Tide, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A tall, thin and elegant landscape of a serene coastal scene at dusk. The gradient sky dominates, transitioning from deep teal at the top to a warm, glowing gol...
Oil
Horizon X, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An atmospheric seascape captures a dynamic sunset through vivid gradients of orange and yellow stretching across the sky while the ocean glows in deep red. Brig...
Oil
Horizon XI, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Rich reds, golds, and oranges create a minimalist yet dramatic seascape. The panoramic format evokes a sense of vastness and tranquility. Slightly darker edges ...
Oil
Enchanted Sanctuary, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main shows a peaceful inlet surrounded by lush vegetation. Deep shadows contrast with the bright sunlight, leading the eye into the composition a...
Oil
$3,810
H 12 in W 18 in D 2 in
Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Oil of Wastwater, Lake District.
By Rene Jerome Legrand
Located in ludlow, GB
Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting of Wastwater in the Lake District. A famous view of one of England's most beautiful and dramatic locations. A Misty mountain view ...
Oil
A Summer's Sunset
Located in San Francisco, CA
In this abstract landscape, artist Geneva Cross conveys the mood of a dreamlike summer evening that might be remembered by any of us in its universality. Blending the basic elements ...
Masonite, Oil
$2,200Sale Price|61% Off
H 30 in W 40 in D 0.875 in
"Being There" Original Oil Painting by Robert White, Frameless Display
Located in Encino, CA
“Being There,” an original oil on canvas by Robert K. White, is a piece for the true collector. White’s careful attention to detail and vivid use of browns and reds project from the painting, immediately capturing the viewer's attention and highlighting the artist's keen ability to capture emotion and life - all in a brushstroke. White's talent for depicting light and shadow provides the foundation for him to deliver subjects and scenes to the viewer's eye. This masterful work would make a great addition to an art collection and enhance most any home, perfect for those who have an affinity for cityscapes, theater, and architecture. In the artist’s own words, “I don’t paint what is inside of me; I paint what I see outside of me. I’m an observer. If I see something and I feel an affinity for it, something just clicks in my head. I’ll make the decision right then and there to paint that particular subject during that particular moment. It’s a perfect moment. Once something has caught my eye and I’ve heard the “perfect” click, it’s like a photograph has been taken in my mind’s eye. I only have a few days of clarity with that image. I have to start the painting quickly or else it will be gone and I will lose that image forever.” Artist: ROBERT KENNETH WHITE...
Oil, Canvas
Landscape with a Cart Path
By Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph
Located in Milford, NH
A fine New England landscape with a cart path and birch tree by Swedish-American artist Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868-1924). Valenkamph was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and emi...
Canvas, Oil
$4,014
H 26 in W 32 in D 2 in
Nineteenth Century Impressionist Landscape of River with Cattle grazing in Field
Located in ludlow, GB
Nineteenth Century Impressionist Oil Painting of River Severn Landscape with Cattle watering and green Fields on a Summers Day. Signed Oil on Canvas on Stretchers and Framed in a Wh...
Oil
Golden Afternoon, Mount Monadnock, NH
By Erick Ingraham
Located in Milford, NH
This finely detailed landscape of a stone wall and field beneath Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire on a warm summer afternoon was painted by contemporar...
Oil, Panel
Still Life
By Frederick Conway
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frederick Conway (1900-1973) was a painter, educator, and lecturer. From 1929 to 1970, Conway was a member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School. When Max Beckmann was in residence at Washington University, he and Conway became close associates. Conway was one of the first to realize the importance and seriousness of Beckmann's teaching. In 1949, Beckmann painted Conway's portrait. Conway was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts and in Paris at the Academie Julian, the Academy Moderne, and the Academy Grande Chaumiere. He painted murals for the WPA (Works Progress Administration...
Canvas, Oil
$595
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in D 0.71 in
"Ghost of the Gardens" (original flora, floral, vibrant, abstract landscape)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
"Ghosts of the Gardens" is a mysterious and captivating abstract painting, evoking the untamed beauty of wild gardens and chaotic floral motifs with its energetic and loose movement....
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
Midsummer
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ira Barkoff Biography American, b. 1934 Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence....
Canvas, Oil
$2,600
H 25.5 in W 29.75 in D 1.5 in
General Post Office New York City
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist cityscape in New York City by American artist William Maynard (1921-2016). Maynard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was a...
Canvas, Oil
$16,000
H 28.75 in W 24.75 in D 1.25 in
Cornish Coast or Coast of Cornwall
By Charles Herbert Woodbury
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist beach scene by American artist Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940). Woodbury was born in Lynn, MA, and sold his first painting when he was fifteen years old and...
Canvas, Oil
$2,694
H 23.63 in W 39.38 in D 0.12 in
Original Diptych-Jardin d'Hiver Moonlit Series-British Awarded Artist-Dahlias
Located in London, GB
[Jardin d'Hiver] is Shizico Yi's on-going series, created in her winter studio while savouring for the summer left behind. This diptych included one evening scene of the last full m...
Gold Leaf
Afterglow XII, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A dark shoreline seemingly stretches into the horizon, setting a moody tone for this seascape. Thick, greenish-gray clouds fill the sky, sharply divided from th...
Oil
Awakening II, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The sun breaks through the morning haze, painting the sky yellow. In the distance, low hills emerge to the left while silhouettes of dark trees stand on the rig...
Oil
Twilight III, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main presents a light-filled atmospheric landscape that combines old-world realism with a modern aesthetic. Uplifting radiant light, created by bui...
Oil
Desert Reflections, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main is passionate about mid-century modern homes - in fact, she lives in one. "I created a contrast between the iconic geometric shapes of the arc...
Oil
Palm Springs Pool IV, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Oil paint with cold wax formed the bold rainbow-hued sky and its reflection in the striking triangle of light in the pool below," shares artist Mandy Main. "The mountains of distant Joshua Tree National Park and numerous palm trees gracing this Rancho Mirage desert neighborhood are visible beyond the shaded wall. In the waning light, the largest palm trees are silhouetted against the sunset colors in both the sky and the pool. The geometry of the garden and pool deck is barely visible in the deep violet shadows."
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: sunset, desert, pool, landscape, nature, nocturne, palm trees, sky, clouds, reflections, evening, sunset, dusk, twilight, California, Palm Springs, landscape, representational, modern , oil painting, orange
Oil
Golden Light III, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The unfolding landscape moves through fields and trees which appear realistic but are really only suggested with loose brushstrokes, giving a fresh, dynamic ...
Oil
Luminous Field IX, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A big sky view of a glowing sunset over vineyards. "Radiating crop lines point toward the very low horizon and the uplifting burst of light piercing a fiery sky...
Oil
Vineyard XI, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Contemporary impressionist landscape of vineyards at sunset. The radiating lines of the fields lead the eye toward trees and mountains at the horizon and a bu...
Oil
Golden Hills XXIII, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An uplifting, light-filled landscape combining old world realism with a modern aesthetic. Dramatic clouds sweep across the sky, enlivening the bucolic landscape...
Oil
Sanctuary XII, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Mandy Main says she worked to capture the essence of a summer day at a bird sanctuary on the Columbia River, accessible only by boat. Dramatic clouds a...
Oil