Thomas Sarrantonio

Field Painting July 29 2022, Purple, Violet Blue Flowers Green Grass Landscape

2022

In this horizontal landscape painting in ink and oil on paper mounted on panel, the artist's unique ink process creates soft striations of bright pink, dark crimson red, pale yellow and orange at the center of a layered, undulating composition. The result is an abstract landscape suggesting a hilly mountain range, while layers of oil paint and a soft, faint background create depth within the surface. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Shane McAdams’ work is about landscape in the broadest sense. The artist grew up in the desert southwest...

This square landscape painting in oil on panel depicts a peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field with white and pale lilac flowers, shrouded in mist, beneath a tree with olive green leaves, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of a field of wildflowers and tall grass in mid-August. Signed, dated and titled on verso. The paintings of Thomas Sarrantonio seek to mediate between realms of external perception and internal reflection. They present themselves as meditations on nature and self. Choosing humble, often overlooked subject matter, such as the overgrown grasses at the edge of a field, he attempts to translate the dynamic processes of Nature into the stasis of physical matter on a painted surface. Small works are produced directly from Nature while large paintings are studio productions that utilize memory, experience, imagination and conceptual ideas to negotiate the terrain of contemporary painting. The paintings are offered to the viewer as templates to provoke active participation in the process of seeing and quiet contemplation of the act of consciousness. Thomas Sarrantonio studied Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia where his teachers included Wil Barnet and Sidney Goodman...

In this horizontal landscape painting on panel, a sense of wonderment and whimsy is conveyed in McAdams' blending of fantasy and realism. The artist's unique ballpoint ink process creates striations of bright pink, blue, and yellow in vertical stripes across the background. Hot air balloons float through a colorful striped sky, while layers of resin suggest depth within the surface. A vast mountain range is depicted in oil along the bottom of the composition. Signed, dated and titled on verso. McAdams’ work is about landscape in the broadest sense. The artist grew up in the desert southwest...

A peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field with lavender wildflowers beneath a tree with dark green leaves with rolling hills in the distance, beautifully capturing the i...

A peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field with yellow, white and pink flowers and Queen Anne's lace, beautifully capturing the idyllic feel of a field of wildflowers and...

A peaceful outdoor scene of a delicately painted field with periwinkle blue flowers, lavender and white Queen Anne's lace, beautifully capturing the i...

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Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and s...

Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and s...

Oil paint on wood panel Signed on the back "Incanto" or the enchantment of shifting "Nicolas Kennett revisits the organic world through painted and sculpted matter. He oscillates b...

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