They feel contentment in the colors, they see beauty in the painting, or they enjoy the subject matter. He tries to capture ...

Flowing water, natural light, and layered textures come together in this oil painting journey inspired by captivating ...

If you want oil paintings of aspen trees or cityscapes, Sparky Lebold is not your guy. But if you want traditional, richly textured landscapes of the sea, open spaces, rundown buildings, figures and ...

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, by Barry Schwabsky (DAP, April 2019) Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New ...

Curtis Wilson Cost is the quintessential Maui landscape artist. He has more than 500 original oil paintings to his credit and the “longest running one-man gallery in the state of Hawaii” at Kula Lodge ...

Lois Dodd, "White Echinacea + Butterflies" (1997-98), oil on linen, 36 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Center for Figurative Painting) There are many competing narratives about what happened in ...

A watercolor landscape by 19th century British painter David Cox brought a surprise result at an auction in January. Valued at only £80–£100 by Derbyshire’s Hansons Auctioneers, the painting went on ...

The Redwood Art Association Gallery is hosting landscape workshop with local oil painter Erica Brooks. Students will paint landscapes on location at various Humboldt County locations, including ...

John Constable's The Hay Wain presents a bucolic view of England – but there's a dark side to the idealised rural image. Widely satirised and reproduced on everything from bath towels to biscuit tins, ...

Spending time in nature reduces stress. A number of scientific studies have found it can help lower cortisol and blood pressure levels, and even alleviate depression and anxiety. While few of us these ...