Bay Area - Paintings
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Linen, Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
2010s Bay Area - Paintings
Wood, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Hadley encountered this heart-shaped arrangement of candles during San Francisco's Day of the Dead Festival of Altars. "Flowers, a photograph and colorful candles were lovingly placed on the ground in a park with many other personal altars...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Crystal says this painting was inspired by the beautiful light and shadows after a rare desert snowstorm. She used a limited palette of blues and white and an...
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"This painting is a quick, gestural and loose composition created with soft pastel hues," explains Rachel. "The paint texture varies from a thick impasto to a...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Hadley encountered this heart-shaped arrangement of candles during San Francisco's Day of the Dead Festival of Altars. "Flowers, a photograph and colorful candles were lovingly placed on the ground in a park with many other personal altars...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
A lone wolf trots in the snow, encircled with a red halo. In the background, herring swim among a flower pattern, inspired from her childhood memories growing...
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
A sophisticated, dreamlike view of divergent paths one can take. The middle path appearing as a painting within a painting...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Swirling, abstracted roses emerge from a deeply layered background. Bright red and pink blossoms on highly saturated blues, greens and purples. "As I painted,...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Part of Natasha's signature circles series. Loose, geometric abstraction of land and sky. Suggestion of the sun shining on a field of flowers. Warm yellow and...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Suzanne revisited a site and theme found in a previous work, "Solar Event over Marsh and Fen." However, she changed the tone of this painting to reflect the c...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This piece is part of Voskan's ongoing series of abstract expressionist paintings. He spends many hours over multiple sessions creating each piece. Sometimes he will work on a painting for months or even years until he finds the right inspiration to complete the composition. This piece reflects the warmth of the sun's ray on my skin on a bright summer day. It is meant to bring warmth and pleasure, to brighten up a day or mood, Voskan says.
About the Artist
When Voskan Galstian approaches a canvas, he does so with an open mind. When I am creating art I tend to sever my mind from making decisions he explains. His paintings show this intuitive process in their dynamic movement and unique color combinations. Voskan finds inspiration in abstract expressionism; in the vein of that style, he paints based on his deepest emotions. Many people have expressed that they feel a connection with his work - in some cases, it soothes them. When he's not making art, you can find Voskan traveling or reading about geography.
Sunny Day...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This piece is part of Voskan's ongoing series of abstract expressionist paintings. He spends many hours over multiple sessions creating each piece. Sometimes ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
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
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
Crystal DiPietro's paintings start with hikes in remote places. She takes many photographs while out in nature. After every trip, Crystal immediately goes th...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Valerie Berkely looks for stories in her travels as inspiration for her abstracted landscapes. She says of this calm scene, Just offshore there lies a slip of land along the lake known as The Point...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This painting was inspired by a recent art class exercise in which Pat Forbes was tasked with using collage and color. She based the piece off of her worktable with its brushes...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This piece is one of two images of Metamorphosis. This one is the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. The second painting, Metamorphosis I, is th...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Artist Comments
Sometimes these handsome ducks, who feed at the Santa Barbara Bird Refuge by plowing through the water with their bills open, take a break from shoveling and ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This painting is part of a series of highly textured works. It has many layers which keep the viewer's eye and mind wandering.
About the Artist
Gar...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
My abstracts can be enjoyed by anyone, just let your imagination fly. Travel the surface with your eyes and relax in all of the blueness.
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
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Bay Area - Paintings
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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