Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s Post-Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
19th Century Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Early 1900s Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Modern Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Zion National Park on a bright fall day. Yellow rabbitbrush blooming in the foreground leads the eye up to verdant cliffs on the horizon. Thick line work give...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1940s Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Landscape 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 uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”
Words that describe this painting: woods, forest, trees, nature, expressionism, nature, non-representational, oil painting, blue
Bare Trees...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th Century English School Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Folk Art Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This painting is a contemporary interpretation of a rural country farmhouse. The surface is heavily textured with acrylic paints and texture mediums. Orange and gold dominate the scene with touches of aqua peaking through. The edges of the painting are black.
About the Artist
Nancy Merkle;s process begins with a glimpse of color, a flicker of light, a pattern, or a texture. Elements swirl in her mind for hours, sometimes days, sometimes weeks before a design clicks and is transferred to canvas. With the canvas in front of her, she works intuitively -- a mark here, a mark there, a little touch of color, a bit of texture -- until she is satisfied and declares the work finished. Currently Nancy;s work leans toward abstraction; she doesn't paint the world as it is, but as she wishes it were. Bold colors and loose brush strokes are her goal. When she;s not making art, Nancy travels the Pacific Coast with a bicycle strapped to the car and curiosity in my back pocket. Fun Fact: Nancy lived in Alaska until she was five. She had bison in the backyard, bears at the landfill, and a moose who stopped by once in a while to look for sweet grass...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil