2025
Donna McGinnis is known for her imagined land and skyscapes that bridge realism with dreamscape or Magic Realism. Soft rolling golden hills and billowing white clouds in blue or stormy skies are recurring themes in her work. McGinnis is a mid-career American artist, whose oil on canvas paintings shine with the light and warmth of nature. She is associated with The American Impressionists and Magic Realism. Her work is included in some of the nation's most prestigious museums, public institutions and private collections, and is collected worldwide. Her works are contemporary and modern in composition. Both styles of painting are developed in the same way. Neither the abstracts nor landscapes start with preconceived ideas. With the swirling of brushwork and layering of glazes, McGinnis creates her signature style of softness and painting that glows from within. The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco includes three of her drawings in its permanent collection and her work also appears in other numerous private and public collections. McGinnis has shown her work at the Oakland Museum of California, Arkansas Arts Center, Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and several other public spaces and galleries. McGinnis paints in the landscape and abstract genre.
Before the Sea
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis is a painter and draftsman whose work is celebrated for its refined sensitivity and observational clarity. Her drawings have been exhibited widely and are included in ...
Canvas, Oil
Time and Space
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis is a painter and draftsman whose work is celebrated for its refined sensitivity and observational clarity. Her drawings have been exhibited widely and are included in ...
Canvas, Oil
More Secrets
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
Canvas, Oil
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
Resurgence
By Jill Keller Peters
Located in Burlingame, CA
Artist Jill Keller Peters is a colorist whose abstract color-field oil paintings communicate ideas through color. By juxtaposing pure and vivid hues that speak to each other when com...
Canvas, Oil
Warm Waters
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
Birch Grove, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Angie Wright
Located in Yardley, PA
Birch Grove is an immersive celebration of nature's quiet grandeur. This large and vibrant oil painting captures the ethereal beauty of birch trees with their striking grey silver ba...
Oil
Magical
By Elizabeth Sheppell
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Life can take you on many paths that help mold you. My paintings are a journey they take me on. The love of color and textures, building up, and tearing down is such an exciting pro...
Paper, Acrylic
Woods Approach II
By Richard Orient
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
Acrylic, Paper
In The Moment
By Don Wunderlee
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This painting was finished in the moment when all things in a painting come together with the right balance of form, The colors in th...
Canvas, Acrylic
S230
By Janet Hamilton
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece is part of my Stripes series.
About the Artist
Janet Hamilton is an abstract expressionist who creates heavily-textured and multi-layere...
Oil
Forest Series: Breeze
By Ira Barkoff
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vas...
Canvas, Oil
