California - Landscape Paintings
1990s American Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Gouache, India Ink, Watercolor
1960s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1930s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
1990s Neo-Expressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1980s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1970s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1960s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Tonalist California - Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Linen
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
2010s Post-Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1980s Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Laid Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
2010s Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Artist Comments
A sophisticated, dreamlike view of divergent paths one can take. The middle path appearing as a painting within a painting...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
1950s Modern California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
1980s Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Foil, Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, 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 California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Early 20th Century California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s American Modern California - Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Modern California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1890s Other Art Style California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s Contemporary California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 1900s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
Early 2000s Pop Art California - Landscape Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Laid Paper
Early 2000s Expressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
1970s American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Laid Paper
2010s Post-Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1870s Impressionist California - Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
20th Century Post-War California - Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil





