Valerie BerkelyHeavy Skies, Abstract Oil Painting2021
2021
About the Item
Artist Comments
"I wanted to evoke a sense of great distance, mixing warm sienna hues with iridescent gold, leading to a hint of trees under heavy skies," shares artist Valerie Berkely. "I used a technique of first layering energetic textures, giving this abstract landscape a feeling of weight and depth."
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: abstract, landscape, field, horizon, abstract, landscape, non-representational, oil painting, orange
Heavy Skies
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 .75 in. d
1 lbs. 0 oz.
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- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:Heavy Skies. 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
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