Bay Area - Paintings
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Linen, Oil
Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel, Linen
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pigment
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
19th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Monotype, Fabric, Ink
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
Patricia builds her compositions intuitively with palette knives, blending colors and developing texture directly on the surface of her panels. She poetically describes the composition of this painting as "greys and black spreading apart to let in the sunset."
About the Artist
As a child in the 1950s, Patricia Oblack sat in front of the television and learned to draw with Jon Gnagy...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Wood, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
19th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Paintings
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Masonite
Artist Comments
Typical small old church in the Texas Hill Country. Easter time brings blankets of wildflowers throughout the Hill Country, and none more noteworthy than the bluebonnets. There is also some Indian paintbrush...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Wood, Oil
Artist Comments
While the artist painted this scene from life, the aroma of lavender filled the studio. "The atmosphere seemed to calm the storms of the day," Pamela recalls....
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Bay Area - Paintings
Linen, Oil
Artist Comments
I have always been fascinated by images from the past that exist today divorced from their original intent or context. Clearly, someone believed the image was...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This portrait depicts a woman looking back against a night sky and a sea of wildflowers. Wearing an ambivalent expression, there is an unknown quality to the ...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This is a piece in my Memory Stones series. These are inspired by rocks and pebbles I collected while sitting at the lake one day, listening to the soft lappi...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
I've painted this scene a couple of times before. There a lots of dead pines facing the channel that separates the coast of Maine from Grand Manan Island, exc...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Morgan creates ethereal atmospheres using feathery brushstrokes and subtle contrasts. Her muted, tonal palette allows the texture and layering to take centers...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This painting was inspired by aerial footage of a walking path near Warren's studio in Santa Fe. He captured the image with his drone camera and then painted ...
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
A puddled hillside path reflects the sky's brilliant light just after an afternoon shower. The light gives the fall trees a soft backlit appearance. "I love t...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Doug says of this pastoral American landscape, "On Highway 2 along the Androscoggin River in Maine is the village of Rumford Center, where there is a small United Church. Its simple design and white facade are an iconic symbol of 19th century America. The church hasn't changed over the years, but the surroundings have. This painting is how I perceive the church and things were back in the simpler times when agriculture was the primary livelihood of its parishioners."
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: church, Maine, architecture, landscape, rural, farm , landscape, representational, oil painting, green
The White Church, Rumford Center
Doug Cosbie...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This ethereal portrait of a woman represents a fleeting encounter that fades away. Rendered with soft light, the painting mimics the quality of a dream disapp...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Metal
Artist Comments
Broad strokes of blue and green merge with the strong lines of the figure to create a sense of lightness and buoyancy. "This painting was inspired by a holida...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Layers of abstract flowers in saturated colors of red, purple, blue and green, with pops of yellow and orange. As Ruth-Anne created this piece, she wiped out ...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Part of a series inspired by Colette's journey through the french countryside. An abstracted foreground gives way to a small village scene, with the town chur...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood
Artist Comments
Kent Sullivan draws ideas for paintings from a variety of sources - plein air sessions, photography, videos, memory, and sketches...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Building up many layers of color in oil paint and cold wax medium, Valerie then used scrapers to reveal the tree trunks in an abstract landscape. Warm orange and yellow trees standing in front of a cool blue and green background. Heavy texture complements the expressionist palette. The piece is part of a series of three works. Although Valerie did not create them as triptych, the three hang well close together.
About the Artist
Valerie Berkely...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
The bare branches and textured grasses in this piece were painted mostly with a palette knife, giving it the broken, wild feeling of nature. In addition to th...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
This imagined landscape captures the drama of crashing waves, or a desert rock face against a cloudy sky. I worked with a seascape ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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