Faye Vander Veer

Have You Decided, Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
Artist Faye Vander Veer creates a warm restaurant interior with ambient lighting and muted colors. She emphasizes more detail in the areas of interest while keeping brushwork loose and colors more closely related in less important areas. "In observing people, I always wonder about their conversations and their connection with the people they are with," says Faye. She reveals that in contemplating this scene, she can almost hear several people asking: "Have You Decided?"

About the Artist
Artist Faye Vander Veer seeks out moments with engaging narratives and captures them with an impressionist style. Her dramatic use of color, texture, light and shadow lend a glowing quality, creating an energy all their own. While using her own photographs as a general reference, it is her sensory memory of the event and her emotional reaction that is conveyed on the canvas, causing the viewer to be transported to another time and place. “Painting becomes a language I use to express my emotional response to what is before me and share my experience of the subject with others,“ says Faye.

Words that describe this painting: impressionism, cafe, restaurant, bistro, people, lighting, bar, interior, waiters, France, Italy, Europe, Manet, Degas, dining, tables, chair, sitting, architecture, travel, oilpaint, lamp, indoor, architecture, impressionism, travel, oil painting, brown

Have You Decided
Faye Vander Veer
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2023
20 in. h x 20 in. w x 1.5 in. d
1 lbs. 10 oz.