Connie Dorner

Antique American Modernist Fruit Still Life Framed Interior View Oil Painting

1960

The paintings are drawn with oil on the canvas. Midnight in the magic garden. Hurray! The series of paintings "My funny birds" continues. Bright contrasts. Fancy flowers. Each of the...

“Morning Light” epitomizes the abundance of Spring with its bustling bouquet of white lilies, yellow roses, and a sliced open, ready to be eaten pink grapefruit. Despite the levity of the scene, Lucas has challenged herself with space, making a clear contrast between subject and background. She is consciously rejecting the “ironed on” effect of a subject onto a canvas, a trap to which lesser artists might succumb. Artist Bio Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights. Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness. For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint. Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...

Bold outlines and strong weighty forms coalesce with a compositional delicacy that forms the hallmark of Hartley's work. The work has a long and distinguished provenance and exhibit...

Modern Abstracted Still-Life with Antique Coffee Grinder by Anthony Rappa Modern textural still-life by California artist Anthony Rappa (America...

SUNLIGHT TABLE Size: 62 x 53.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A gentle and poetic mid-century interior still life that captures a moment of quiet radiance, executed in oil...

Asters ~ 1970, oil on canvas, 55x80 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always...

Flowers in a vase Oil on canvas, 66x49 cm Still life painting with stylized sunflowers on light-colored background. The focal point of the artwork is the depiction of sunflowers, k...

Eclectic objects, oddly juxtaposed, found in antique shops creates opportunities for the artist. This shop was directly across from my gallery so I set up my easel just out front . I...

Flowers / Ships (two-way) Oil on canvas, 37x29 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the...

Sunflowers. 1999. Oil on canvas. 100x81 cm This depiction of sunflowers shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of nature representation. Colors and decoratively captured flower...