San Francisco - Art
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
19th Century San Francisco - Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Monotype
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Art
Engraving, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Early 20th Century Photorealist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
1950s Abstract San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Monoprint
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
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 San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Monotype
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Screen
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Abstract San Francisco - Art
Porcelain
Artist Comments
Valerie Berkely looks for stories in her travels as inspiration for her abstracted landscapes. This painting is evocative of th...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric San Francisco - Art
Screen
2010s San Francisco - Art
Archival Pigment
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Gouache
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Monoprint
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Archival...
Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Artist Comments
Cynthia says this painting was inspired by the enticing yet subtle colors that appear in the early winter landscape. A block of pale yellow worked over with b...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Woodcut
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
1970s San Francisco - Art
Silver Gelatin
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph