Santa Fe - Landscape Paintings

Blue, Navy, calm, reflection, nature, mountains 31 x 41" oil on canvas, maple frame Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on can...

"Funchal, le Port (Port of Funchal, Portugal)" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper 12 x 9 (18 3/4 x 15 5/8 frame) inches Stamp of studio on reserve INV Nbr. 821RT...

"Les Trois Arbres (The 3 Trees)" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Circa 1920s Pastel on paper, signed lower left 12.5 x 9.75 (16 3/4 x 13 3/4 frame) inches Raymond Thibesart ...

Blue, Navy, calm, reflection, nature, mountains, sky. 31 x 41" oil on canvas, maple frame Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil ...

Scotch Broom 22 x 30" image size watercolor, 32 x 40" framed in a whitewash profile with museum quality glass red green blue yellow I document the essenc...

Pink Place peach pink blue yellow I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched views of our landscape - the best parts of why we all come to ...

Purple, orange, green, sage, lilac, yellow, rust, peach, salmon 13 x 13" oil painting on canvas with frame. Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted land...

Blue,White,Indigo, navy 40 x 72" oil painting on canvas Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

Martha Mans 10 x 10 image size and 21 x 21 matted and framed The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started painting in oil until now. Each stage had to be experienced and has led to a deeper understanding of what my expression in paint is all about. Painting traditional realism with good design as an important element was where I began. Now, the evolution of my painting process has brought me to a point in which the subject, the texture of the oil medium and the physical application of the brushstrokes have become profoundly intertwined. All are so necessary to the finished work that if one were to be taken away the work would be left incomplete. My hope is that the synthesis of the subject, design, expressive brush strokes and the texture of the paint come together to create a work of art in which the viewer experiences all of these elements at once in a powerful statement on canvas. “New Mexico is a land of earthy colors and textures. Rocks, dirt, twiggy plants, reds and ochres against blue grays, dry, wet, cold, hot, mostly hard and rough create a movement in visual and tactile rhythms that surround me. There are times when I am standing in the New Mexico landscape on a warm day when I want to lay down and embrace it. I can’t help but be madly in love with the textures of everything around me. I am drawn to the irresistible forces that seem to bring me closer to the earth. The more I experience these textural qualities of the land, the more I am compelled to use them to express what I want to say. “ Martha was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended Carlow University and received a degree in art and art education. Later she studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Southern California. At the beginning of her career she worked as an art teacher and art department head in Maryland and California. After becoming a full-time artist she taught watercolor and oil painting workshops in the United States and abroad. After moving to Colorado she became a master instructor for a branch of the Art Students League in Colorado Springs and then set up her own classes in her studio where she presently teaches on a weekly basis. She was director for many years of large adventure workshops combining painting and exploring. Some of these adventures include Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, where Georgia O’Keefe painted, a yearly excursion on a Clipper Ship in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas stopping at many ports to paint and an exciting workshop in Salvador, Brazil, painting the colorful region and people there. It was due to these painting trips on which the artists had to carry around all their painting equipment that she put together a compact painting travel kit that she marketed and that many plein air artists use as they travel to their many painting locations. Martha’s work has been featured in many art publications such as: Southwest Art Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist’s Magazine and Art Collector’s Magazine. Her work has been used in several books on painting; “Making Your Watercolors Look Professional,” by Carole Katchen, The Best of Watercolor Series, Rockport, Press, “How to Paint Better Watercolor Paintings,” by Jerald Brommer and Jerald Brommer’s Art Education Posters for High Schools. Her work has received many awards in national juried competitions including numerous best of shows awards. Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society, Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Montana Watercolor Society and the Adirondacks National and the San Diego Watercolor Society to name a few. She has been awarded signature membership into the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. Over her career as an artist she has had the privilege of being able to work with many painting groups and institutions: Instructor of painting at the Jade Fong Watercolor Workshops in Carmel, California Instructor at La Romita School of Art in Umbria, Italy Instructor at Montfacon in Limoux, France Charles Russell Art Auction in Great Falls, Montana, 10 years National Arts Club in New York Salmagundi Club in New York National Academy of Design in New York American Watercolor Society, New York, Signature Member National Watercolor Society, California, Signature Member National Arts Club, New York
 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Western Federation of Watercolor Florida Watercolor Society, convention show juror and instructor Baltimore Watercolor Society Las Posada Painting Group, annual workshop, Green Valley, Arizona Rocky Mountain National Art Exhibition Adirondacks Watercolor Exhibition San Diego Watercolor Society New Mexico Watercolor Society Pikes Peak Watercolor Society Tokyu Gallery Exhibitions, Tokyo, Japan William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA Summer children’s Art Program Ranchland’s Artist’s Gathering, Nature Conservancy’s Medano/Zapata Ranch, San Luis Valley, Colorado Sheridan College/Spear-O-Wigwam Sheridan Wyoming, Artist’s Gathering Brinton Museum, Big Horn Wyoming, Sheridan College show and small works show Palmer Land Trust, Colorado Springs, CO, First Place Art and Purchase award two years. Ghost Ranch Art Workshops Director, Abiquiu, New Mexico Arts For The Parks annual Exhibition and Traveling Show Taos New Mexico Art...

Taos Orchard 39x63" oil on canvas blue green purple pink Landscape New Mexico The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first s...

Martha Mans 7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started paint...

Blue,White,Indigo, navy 40 x 80" oil painting on canvas Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

acrylic on canvas blue green white

Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...

Dinghies Two 10.0 x 81.0 x 1.0, 5.0 lbs Oil Paint Hand signed by artist Description: An original, contemporary oil painting by Carol Tippit Woolworth...

"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine (Cerisiers en Fleurs sur la Seine)" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper, circa 1920s Signed lower right Circa 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 ( ...

Martha Mans lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown framed in brown frame The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and fi...

Pair of Landscapes: Dijon France, Burgundy Canal Jean Boulay (French, 1937-1994) Oil on canvas Signed and dated 21 1/2 x 15 inches (each) The pair landscape...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

Martha Mans lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange framed in brown frame The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...

“View of Gardanne, 1925" Louis Gautier (French, 1855-1947) Oil on cardboard Signed and dated 1925 lower left, Dedicated lower right: "à Monsieur Angeli, Bien cordially" Titled, dated...

Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

Sunset on the Seine (Coucher de Soleil sur la Seine) Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper, circa 1920s 9 1/2 x 12 ( 14 x 17 1/2 framed) inches This painting, among ...

"The Harvesters" Raphaël Dubois aka Chanterou (Belgium, 1888-1960) Signed bottom left under the pseudonym "Chanterou" Oil on canvas 23 1/2 x 19 1/4 (27 3/4 x 23 3/4 frame) inches Born in Liege in 1888, he enrolled at the age of fourteen at the Academy of Liege where he studied under Evariste Carpentier...

"The Village Church" Piet Lippens (Belgian, 1890-1981) Circa 1930s Oil on canvas, signed lower left 19 x 15 (25 x 21 frame) inches Piet Lippens was a Post Impressionist painter fr...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

Martha Mans lavender The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started painting in oil until now. Each stage had to be ex...

River, path, maroon, dark red, yellow, brown, autumn, jewel tones. 41 x 41" oil on canvas, walnut frame Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landsc...

View of a Port "59" French Modernist School Oil on canvas Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59" 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...

"The Orchard in Spring"  Camille Hilaire (1916 -2004)\ Oil on canvas 18 1/8 x 15 (24 1/2 x 22 5/8) inches   This painting by Camille Hilaire with its signature greens and deconstruc...

Martha Mans 7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started painting in oil until now. Each stage had to be experienced and has led to a deeper understanding of what my expression in paint is all about. Painting traditional realism with good design as an important element was where I began. Now, the evolution of my painting process has brought me to a point in which the subject, the texture of the oil medium and the physical application of the brushstrokes have become profoundly intertwined. All are so necessary to the finished work that if one were to be taken away the work would be left incomplete. My hope is that the synthesis of the subject, design, expressive brush strokes and the texture of the paint come together to create a work of art in which the viewer experiences all of these elements at once in a powerful statement on canvas. “New Mexico is a land of earthy colors and textures. Rocks, dirt, twiggy plants, reds and ochres against blue grays, dry, wet, cold, hot, mostly hard and rough create a movement in visual and tactile rhythms that surround me. There are times when I am standing in the New Mexico landscape on a warm day when I want to lay down and embrace it. I can’t help but be madly in love with the textures of everything around me. I am drawn to the irresistible forces that seem to bring me closer to the earth. The more I experience these textural qualities of the land, the more I am compelled to use them to express what I want to say. “ Martha was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended Carlow University and received a degree in art and art education. Later she studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Southern California. At the beginning of her career she worked as an art teacher and art department head in Maryland and California. After becoming a full-time artist she taught watercolor and oil painting workshops in the United States and abroad. After moving to Colorado she became a master instructor for a branch of the Art Students League in Colorado Springs and then set up her own classes in her studio where she presently teaches on a weekly basis. She was director for many years of large adventure workshops combining painting and exploring. Some of these adventures include Ghost Ranch...

Study from Nature Made in Montfaucon 1846 (Etude d'après Nature Faite à Montfaucon, 1846) François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887) Oil on canvas, original hand carved wood frame. Signed, dated and inscribed F. Bonvin 1846 a Montfaucon (ll); inscribed indistinctly Etude... F. Bonvin...montfaucon on the stretcher 6 3/8 x 8 5/8 (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 frame) inches Provenance: Ex Collection Auguste Péquégnot Paul Prouté André Watteau Charles Sadler Galerie Berès, Paris Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Beres, Francois Bonvin, Nov. 20, 1998 - Jan. 9, 1999 Literature: International Herald Tribune, Nov. 28-29, 1998, p. 9, illus. Bonvin's work has been compared with that of the eighteenth-century artist Chardin, whom Bonvin greatly admired, and from whose work he often borrowed particular motifs. Amongst the artists he personally encouraged were Théodule Ribot and Fantin-Latour. He was one of a group of artists who challenged the idea that still-life was a mode of artistic expression inferior to the lofty genre of history and religious painting. Bonvin championed the Realist conviction that everyday subject matter was the trues form of artistic expression. Bonvin was known for keen observation skills and great restraint. In his paintings, you can almost feel the moment between breaths as the subject matter is contemplated and then committed to canvas. This a superb, very personal and very quiet study of the village of Montfaucon on what appears to be an afternoon in the Argonne region in Northeastern France known its deep valleys and dense woodlands. François is one of the most interesting painters of the 19th century. Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris and had a very difficult childhood. He was the son of a police officer and a seamstress; when he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis. Young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him. Soon his father married another seamstress and brought the child back into the household. Nine additional children were born (one of whom was his half-brother, the painter Leon...

Purple, orange, green, sage, lilac, yellow, rust, peach, salmon 13 x 13" oil painting on canvas with frame. Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted land...

"The White in Morocco, 1901" E. Baily Hilda (Austrian, 1855-1955) Oil on panel Signed and dedicated lower right, "To my cousin Louis, affectionate memory" 15 x 12 inches frame size ...

Martha Mans lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange framed in brown frame The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...

Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust, navy, blue Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kans...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

Navy, yellow blue Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

Green, sage, hunter green. Lake, trees, nature, landscape, reflection, water. 40 x 80" oil painting on canvas Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted la...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

12 x 12" oil, aluminum leaf on panel Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vast stretches of prairie lead to distant horizons. Represen...

Pair of Landscapes: Dijon France, Burgundy Canal B Jean Boulay (French, 1937-1994) Oil on canvas Signed and dated 21 1/2 x 15 inches (each) The pair landscape...

"Landscape at Dawn" Piet Lippens (Belgian, 1890-1981) Circa 1930s Oil on canvas, signed lower right 19 x 15 (24 x 20 frame) inches Piet Lippens was a Post Impressionist painter fr...

Martha Mans 7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started paint...

Martha Mans lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown orange framed in brown frame The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

Blue, lavender, purple, water, sky 31 x 31" Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

Ghost Ranch Encantado 22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board. I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...

Martha Mans 7 x 7 image size and 16 x 16 matted and shrink-wrapped The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and first started painting in oil until now. Each stage had to be experienced and has led to a deeper understanding of what my expression in paint is all about. Painting traditional realism with good design as an important element was where I began. Now, the evolution of my painting process has brought me to a point in which the subject, the texture of the oil medium and the physical application of the brushstrokes have become profoundly intertwined. All are so necessary to the finished work that if one were to be taken away the work would be left incomplete. My hope is that the synthesis of the subject, design, expressive brush strokes and the texture of the paint come together to create a work of art in which the viewer experiences all of these elements at once in a powerful statement on canvas. “New Mexico is a land of earthy colors and textures. Rocks, dirt, twiggy plants, reds and ochres against blue grays, dry, wet, cold, hot, mostly hard and rough create a movement in visual and tactile rhythms that surround me. There are times when I am standing in the New Mexico landscape on a warm day when I want to lay down and embrace it. I can’t help but be madly in love with the textures of everything around me. I am drawn to the irresistible forces that seem to bring me closer to the earth. The more I experience these textural qualities of the land, the more I am compelled to use them to express what I want to say. “ Martha was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she attended Carlow University and received a degree in art and art education. Later she studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Southern California. At the beginning of her career she worked as an art teacher and art department head in Maryland and California. After becoming a full-time artist she taught watercolor and oil painting workshops in the United States and abroad. After moving to Colorado she became a master instructor for a branch of the Art Students League in Colorado Springs and then set up her own classes in her studio where she presently teaches on a weekly basis. She was director for many years of large adventure workshops combining painting and exploring. Some of these adventures include Ghost Ranch...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

Blue, Violet, Purple, Navy, Sapphire. 29 x 23" Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.

Purple, dark green, peach, cream, blue. Sky, clouds, landscape, nature, weather. 50 x 50" oil on canvas Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted lands...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

black gray white I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched views of our landscape - the best parts of why we all come to New Mexico: the ...

The experience of nature and daily life feed my work. The materials I use are from the natural world: beeswax and cotton thread. The threads are untwined and dyed with things I consu...

Pauline Ziegen oil, gold leaf, mixed media on panel coral, pink, white gold, teal, aqua, rust Pauline Ziegen’s earliest landscape paintings were painted outdoors in Kansas where vas...

Ghost Ranch Encantado 22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board. I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...