Impressionist landscapes and cityscapes
This is a new orchard just north of the Broadway Bridge on the West side of Seashore Road. I liked the one-point perspective created by the newly planted trees and the vast landscape, captured on a little canvas.
Oil on canvas
24”w x 12”h
$495.
This is a very small painting of Tavira in the Algarve region of Portugal, painted soon after our first stay there. I love the roofscapes of Mediterranean towns with the myriad planes and varieties of terra cotta.
This is thickly painted and depicts a patch of sunlight falling on the main street of town, several blocks away.
Oil on canvas 24″w x 18″h
$750.
This is one of a pair of paintings of the olive grove on the grounds of the castle in Beja, Portugal. In this painting, the trees are painted as hundreds of individual leaves, rather than the usual way of treating the whole leaf-mass as one volume with light and shadow. The other painting of this pair is painted differently.
Oil on canvas
20”w x 16”h
$700.
This is one of a pair of paintings of the olive grove on the grounds of the castle in Beja, Portugal. In this painting, the trees are painted as masses of light and shadow, and some leaves are added afterward to create the impression of leafiness. The other is painted differently.
Oil on canvas
20”w x 16”h
$700.
Susan and I spent a month in Malta many years ago. We were visiting the smaller island of Gozo, on the way to the old capital, Mdina. While we were in the sun at the bottom of the hill, it was showering in the city. When we got to the city gates, we were drenched. Every inch of Malta is terraced and farmed and not a spot is wasted.
My aim was to capture the drama of the medieval city on a hill with the terraced gardens flanking the slope. The dramatic cloud was a bonus.
oil on canvas
36″w x 24″h
$950.
This is the only bridge in France covered by buildings (like the Ponte Vecchio in Florence) If you stand in the spot that my other painting of canal boats in Narbonne was done from, and turn your hear to face the other way, this is what you see. The water was perfectly still like a mirror.
When the Canal du Midi was built, the merchants of Narbonne realized that they would be bypassed and the town would whither and die, so they built the Canal de la Robine to connect with the new transportation system.
oil on canvas
18″w x 24″ h
$750.
This is the Palace of Monserrate, a quinta (estate) in Sintra, Portugal. It is Victorian Gothic and spectacular inside. Sintra is a beautiful town near Lisbon and is surrounded by palaces and country houses. Susan and I have visited Sintra several times and we particularly love Victorian Gothic since we live in a Victorian Gothic cottage ourselves.
oil on canvas
30″w x 22″h
$750.
Susan and I were driving up the Garden State Parkway from Cape May when I saw this. A huge, dark, threatening, cloud was hanging over the wetlands that separate Wildwood from the mainland of New Jersey. I went home and stretched a huge canvas to suit the enormous scene.
oil on canvas
5’w x 3’h
$1200.
This is where the Emperor Constantine is said to have seen a vision of a fiery cross in the sky. After his victory, he tolerated, then required Christianity as the state religion. Amazingly, the Roman bridge is still there.
Oil on canvas
24”w x 18”h
$750.
This is a small painting that I did years ago of the Cape May wetlands between Wildwood and the mainland of New Jersey. The mud flats in the foreground were next to Ocean Drive and the bunch of trees on the horizon are adjacent to the banks along route 47.
I put the horizon very high to try to capture the vastness and flatness of the wetlands in a small canvas. The color is laid on in washes to reproduce the beige and green of early spring.
oil on canvas
$900.
