2024
Artist Comments
A layer of snow wraps a serene forest. Painted with a limited color palette of Payne's Grey and Phthalo Green, accented with Titanium White, the scene exudes a wintry, crisp, and cool ambiance. Artist Valerie Berkely employs the finger-painting technique in this composition.
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.â€
Words that describe this painting: winter, forest, snow, snow-covered, tree, cool, vertical, finger painting, season, expressionism, landscape, oil painting
Wintergreen
Valerie Berkely
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2024
12 in. h x 6 in. w x 1.5 in. d
1 lbs. 2 oz.
Winter Woods 5, Oil Painting
By Valerie Berkely
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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Oil
Transcendence, Oil Painting
By Valerie Berkely
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Artist Comments
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Oil
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Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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Oil
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Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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Oil
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By Valerie Berkely
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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Oil
Winter Woods 3, Abstract Oil Painting
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Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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Oil
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