Christopher Clark

Circle of Trees

2021

Shawn Krueger's "A Spring Thicket" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a green hillside covered with moss and the fresh lush growth of springtime plants.

Growth of Decay, 2020

Brad Davis' "Komorebi" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts brown branches curling and spiraling around a canopy of green leaves

Deb Komitor's "The Forest Never Sleeps" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an evening landscape where the full moon's bright light illuminates the foliage and underbr...

Artist's Statement "When I first began to paint landscapes in college, European and American landscape painters heavily influenced me. I loved the immediate qualities of the Barbizo...

"Africa Trees" is an oil painting inspired by travel in the Hwang National Park in Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. Close to the edge of the Kalahari Desert, it is the largest national ...

Artist Comments
A line of spring trees bursting with blossoms becomes the focal point of this expressive landscape. Much of the foliage is built up with smaller, flat brushstro...

Trees Kiln-fired enamel 4.5" h x 3.5" w 9" h x 8.5" (framed) Max Karp is widely recognized as the chief innovator of modern enameling. Self-taught and driven, over the years he perfected a unique process which allowed for his creation of museum-quality, kiln-fired two-dimensional painting. Karp was born in Ohio in 1916 but raised in California. He began painting as a child by depicting various species of birds and insects for his father who was an ornithologist and entomologist. In the mid-1960's, Karp became interested in the enamel process. Over the last half century, his paintings have received critical recognition and in 1970 Hamilton Mint commissioned Karp to produce paintings of the four seasons of the year, which were then issued as a limited edition of plates on precious metal. In 1980 Karp's enamel portrait of Beverly Sills, the American Queen of Opera, was presented to the singer following her final performance. His work is included in numerous private collections including those of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Margaretta “Happy" Rockefeller, and Sarah Churchill...