Impressionism Painting in Gallery Show.

Landscape “Five and Six in a Row” 11 x 17 oil on treated, unstretched canvascanvas

 Gallery Art

Currently a couple of my small paintings is in gallery group gallery  show. (see previous post) I have memories of certain scenes - landscapes I have seen either recently or in the past. Because of where I live, I see the ocean and agriculture fields almost every day.  They become my subject matter from my imagination of what I have previously seen.

Plein Air Painting

I also enjoy painting plein air.  It brings me great satisfaction – although what I paint when outside on one of my outdoor trips is not always what I am looking at.  I certainly get inspiration from the view but I generally do not try and capture nature.  I’m not trying to reproduce a scene.  A camera does a much better job than that.  What I try and do is illicit a feeling of the countryside and try to capture that in paint.  That is why some of my landscapes have an abstract quality to them.    

Impressionism Paintings art opening Vita Gallery Ventura, Ca.

Impressionism Painting Art

 We had an art show opening at Vita Gallery in Ventura last Sat night. These are a few of my impressionism paintings on display. They let a dozen people in at a time for 45 min over the afternoon and early evening. All spots booked for the opening of "Viewing Ventura". Twelve artists have created pieces representing Ventura in Southern California. The show is available for viewing until Jan 14, 2021 .

 The area around Ventura, Ca has plenty of agriculture fields which is a favorite subject of mine to paint.. What I like is the vanishing line of the horizon stretched out across the farm fields. In high school I took architectural drafting for a couple of years, expecting to be a draftsman. .We had to create a number of perspective drawings.. The influence of that education haunts a lot of my landscape and seascape paintings.