"Mountains at Green Valley Park", Charlie Chatham,Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

 This painting is loaded with expressive color. Charlie is a lovely soft painter and for this session he experimented with color. This is a wonderful expressive painting that demonstrates skill and presents a bold dramatic color story. The work is a story about the dramatic interaction between color and light. The clouds in the sky are moving and this is achieved through active brush work. We see the shadows on the mountains which give us a perception of depth and dimension. The yellow ochre in the road drifts off and blends into the brilliant summer greens of the mountains. This is a dramatic and successful exploration into the world of color. 

"Mountains at Green Valley Park", Charlie Chatham, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

Oil 18x24

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"Downtown Baldwin City", Kathy Pojman, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin City, KS

Kathy is a natural contemporary painter. Her work is highly expressive and creative. She uses different tools and techniques that are highly individualized in order to create texture, pattern and geometric forms. This is an image of downtown Baldwin looking through the window of the Lumberyard Art Center. There is a wonderful piece of stained glass with an artist's palette that hangs in the center of the window. Kathy kept her lights using a  lightly loaded brush combined with stampings to create many of the textures in the brick buildings across the street. This is a very lyrical painting.


"Downtown Baldwin City: Through the Windows", Kathy Pojman, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin City, KS
Watercolor 16x20
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Mary Lou Heine, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin City, KS

Mary Lou Heine studying her work at the Lumberyard Art Center.

"Distant Hills at the National Grasslands" Dara Lowery, Art Treks, Arts Council, Council Grove, KS

I love the sky in this very rich and beautiful painting. The activity in the sky is repeated in the light and motion of the grasses in the foreground. The distant hills are brought to our attention through the light and the receding horizon. The soft purples used are just an indication of the variety of color we see in the Flint Hills and at the National Grasslands. The land is vast and uninterrupted. We can see to the farthest hilltop. The sky moves the earth in this wonderful painting. I love the ridge line of the hills and the way the colors move through the painting.


"Distant Hills at the National Grasslands" Dara Lowery
 Art Treks, Arts Council, Council Grove, KS
Oil
12x14
Available for Sale: Contact Dara Lowery