It won a second place award in the New Berlin Plein Air competition. dimensions are 9 X 12. Oil on canvas board.
Since this was an old German cemetery, I titled this piece "Hear Rests in God" which was words that were on one of the tombstones. I especially love the double tombstone for a husband and wife who died in the 1820s.
The judge said some nice things.
At first this painting seems simple, but that is its winning hand. Although small in size, it is a striking piece. It is painterly and well designed. The artist used strong verticals, exciting diagonals, then grounded this painting with a horizontal in the distant horizon. I thought of landscape paintings by both George Braque and Andre Durain when I saw the spots of paint this artist brilliantly used to create movement and space. This painting too displays a cohesive light, a crisp blue daylight." Paula Swaydan Grebel, Juror New Berlin Plein Aire 09/2014
Since this was an old German cemetery, I titled this piece "Hear Rests in God" which was words that were on one of the tombstones. I especially love the double tombstone for a husband and wife who died in the 1820s.
The judge said some nice things.
At first this painting seems simple, but that is its winning hand. Although small in size, it is a striking piece. It is painterly and well designed. The artist used strong verticals, exciting diagonals, then grounded this painting with a horizontal in the distant horizon. I thought of landscape paintings by both George Braque and Andre Durain when I saw the spots of paint this artist brilliantly used to create movement and space. This painting too displays a cohesive light, a crisp blue daylight." Paula Swaydan Grebel, Juror New Berlin Plein Aire 09/2014
