Valerie Berkely

Summer Day, Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
Artist Valerie Berkely presents a dreamy summer seascape. The warm color palette and gentle movements stir sun-soaked memories and carefree beach vacations. With her finger painting technique, Valerie applies a special pre-texture to her work before exploring the radiant hues of a sunlit day.

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: sunny, warm, beach, sand, shore, waves, vacation, seascape, oilpaint, impressionism, impressionism, seascape, oil painting, orange

Summer Day
Valerie Berkely
Oil painting on cradled wood panel
Natural wood edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2023
11 in. h x 14 in. w x .78 in. d
1 lbs. 9 oz.