Valerie BerkelyUp North Dreamscape, Oil Painting2021
2021
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"I spend all summer long at my studio on a big lake," shares artist Valerie Berkely, "and the shoreline is often a favorite subject. In this piece, I first applied a heavy texture creating a complex surface for scumbling alla prima oil paint wet on wet."
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: shoreline, lake, summer, shore, trees, water, impressionism, seascape, representational, oil painting, blue
Up North Dreamscape
Valerie Berkely
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2021
14 in. h x 11 in. w x 1.5 in. d
3 lbs. 0 oz.
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- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Condition:Up North Dreamscape. Valerie Berkely. Oil painting on stretched canvas. Finished edges. Ready to hang. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front and back.
- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 702081stDibs: LU92217398902
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