2022
Carole Garland, born and raised in Chicago, graduated from Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., She studied figure drawing and oil painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of the Americas, Mexico City. After moving to Los Angeles she studied privately with Keith Finch, Venice. Concurrent with her art pursuits, Garland worked as a magazine editor, publicist, director's assistant, book editor, and sales executive. After a brief hiatus from painting, she looked to the outdoors for inspiration and began plein air watercolor studies with Don Blaisdell, UCLA.
Racing the Waves
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Mother and her Children. A mother clutches her toddler to her breast and grabs her young son as they make for the shoreline to escape the churning Pacific Ocean waters. Are they ru...
Oil, Wood Panel
The Flood
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The Flood - Climate change or global warming and the extreme weather conditions - destructive winds causing infernos, devastating hurricanes and torrential rains contributing to mass...
Oil, Wood Panel
Contemplation
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Contemplation - Young boys enjoy playing in the surf on a warm summer's day in Southern California. The older one, leaning into the sand and letting the ocean waves roll over him, ma...
Canvas, Oil
Reflections
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Carole Garland painted outdoors in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California so often that she felt at home creekside or in a wooden glen. In her “Reflection” series, the abstract forms of reflected branches and tree trunks share the composition with solid rocks and trailing leaves. Her use of color is fresh and inspired. Workshops with Plein Air oil painters Frank Serrano...
Canvas, Oil
Point of View
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Contemporary Realism
Oil, Wood Panel
Summer's End
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Summer's End" -- As summer still simmers, the signs of it coming to an end are apparent. Children are going back to school and cooler nights approach. In the meantime, sunbathers fi...
Oil, Wood Panel
Splash, Painting, Oil on Paper
By Tiffany Blaise
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil, ink and cold wax painting on paper created with a palette knife on Arches oil paper. This painting captures a dynamic waterfall encountered on a forest walk. :: Painting :: ...
Oil
How?
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ] In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Oil
In a Perfect World
By Sharon Paster
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sharon Paster is a distinguished San Francisco Bay-area artist Sharon Paster creates her paintings using oil sticks and brushes, a technique that allows her to both draw and paint at...
Oil, Wood Panel
Into the Water
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm Waters is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over st...
Canvas, Oil
Awash I
By Alison Haley Paul
Located in Napa, CA
Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotations and geographical memories: that summer you spent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Exhilaration
By Alison Haley Paul
Located in Napa, CA
Oil, charcoal, wax, pigment, and graphite on canvas. Alison Haley Paul is a contemporary painter of lavishly textured landscapes full of nuanced color. Her work conjures up connotat...
Canvas, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
