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Canvas, Acrylic
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Ceramic, Clay, Glaze
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Gold Leaf
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Clay, Wood, Glaze
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...
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Oil
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Wood, Epoxy Glue, Acrylic
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Canvas, Oil
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Oil
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Canvas, Acrylic, Latex, Spray Paint
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Canvas, Acrylic, Glitter
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Wood, Epoxy Glue, Acrylic
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Canvas, Oil
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Oil
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Ceramic, Clay, Glaze
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Tara took the reference photo of this sage filled desert landscape while living in New Mexico. To prepare the canvas, she used a warm peach color as her underpainting and layered swatches of a deep blue collage...
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Oil
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Gold Leaf
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Canvas, Oil
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Clay
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Oil, Panel
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Ink, Pastel, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil
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Oil
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Canvas, Oil
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Canvas, Oil
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Metal
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Metal, Steel
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Oil
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Artist Comments
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Oil
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Bronze
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Charcoal
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Oil
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