Gary Westall

SPRING IS ON ITS WAY, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel

2025

The fog has lifted and revealed the secret of Oberhaverbeck near the Turmberg and this unique natural landscape in the Lunenburg Heath. The photo by Edeltraud Woydeck is inspiration...

I'm also tired of this weather and longing for spring sunshine! :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...

I painted this oil painting on canvas, measuring 30 × 40 cm, based on my own impression of a magnolia blossom. I was fascinated by the moment when the first buds open and spring bec...

This work was created during my plein air trip through Poland, in a particularly impressive forest. I was particularly inspired by the light falling through the tall treetops – it...

My abstract paintings are also glimpses of nature. Some of these paintings read as landscapes of a different world, a wondrous space. Others are about the more intimate aspects of na...

The High Desert near Abiquiu is the inspiration for Texas artist Jim Woodson. His paintings are a unity of the intuitive process of painting, personal ideology, and the desert lands...

Peter Hoffer Edge, 2016 oil, acrylic and resin on panel 10 x 30 in. (hoff168) This original landscape painting on panel by Peter Hoffer is simultaneously contemporary and traditiona...

Artist Comments
Artist James Hartman draws inspiration from the experience of seeing sunlit colors and details appearing through the strong vertical tree pattern. He expresses the painting sections to appear like stained glass. James highlights small areas where collaged 100-year-old paper show through the surface, he does this in a non-disruptive way. James applies heat to fuse the oils into a mixture of beeswax and damar crystals to seal the work.

About the Artist
When James Hartman was in art school, he became fascinated with the Society of Six, a group of artists who painted en plein air (outdoors) and exhibited together in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early 20th Century. James's paintings of the Northern California landscape pay tribute to some of the great Bay Area artists of the past. His expressive scenes feel alive through his vibrant use of color and his painterly brushwork. James’s paintings have an immediate visual impact from a distance, yet up close, dissolve into a series of confident marks and strokes. There is a simultaneous complexity and steadiness in his flattened, color-blocked planes. Knowledge and observation are essential elements of James’s working practice. To this end, he spends a large proportion of his time painting on location. His body of work captures the fresh and sunlit essence of the coastal California hills.

Words that describe this painting: expressionism, encaustic, beeswax, collage, antique ephemera...