2026
Gail Chase-Bien has a way of creating boundless worlds within the edges of the canvas. Her nature-inspired abstract, landscape and figurative paintings blur the distinction between background and foreground, inviting the viewer’s imagination to structure the piece. She brings softness, subtlety and suggestion to the edgy world of contemporary art.
Chase-Bien was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1946. She attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, receiving a bachelor’s of fine art in 1977 and a master’s of fine art in 1980. She held her first solo exhibition at Highlight Gallery in Mendocino in 1985 and continued to show steadily throughout California during the rest of the ’80s and ’90s.
Chase-Bien’s collection of work is a tribute to nature and the play of light upon the colors of the landscape. At the same time, her paintings are a meditation upon the human spirit and an invitation for introspection. Each piece takes her anywhere from a few months to years to make using oil paints on linen.
Chase-Bien currently lives and works in Napa County. Her ethereal paintings are held in many private collections and are exhibited at galleries and museums across California and beyond.
On 1stDibs, find a selection of Gail Chase-Bien paintings.
Incoming Tide - triptych
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Incoming Tide - triptych. Three oil on canvas paitings that each measure 30 x 30 inches are framed in black wood measuring 34 x 94 inches. Artist signed and dated verso. Gail Chase...
Canvas, Oil
November Garden
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Canvas, Oil
Winter Lake 2
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Winter Lake 2 oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, From Gail Chase Bien's Winter Lake series. Artist signed and dated verso. +Gail Chase Bien creates luminous oil on linen paintings that u...
Canvas, Oil
Winter Road Oil Painting on Canvas, American Realist, 21st Century
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Canvas, Oil
Reaching for You - triptych
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Three individual abstract canvases that are 24 x 24 inches each to create a 24 x 72 inch triptych when hung together. Can be hung with spacing between each painting. Donna McGinni...
Canvas, Oil
Letter to the Sixth Poet Diptych, American Realist Oil on Linen
By Gail Chase-Bien
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...
Canvas, Oil
Whispers of Spring
By Ann Shogren
Located in Napa, CA
Abstract expressionist Ann Shogren depicts vivid landscapes and paints tapestries of colors that have simultaneously calming and rejuvenating effects on her audiences. Having lived i...
Oil
SANDRA HOFFMAN 20th c. American Philadelphia TRIPTYCH LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
SANDRA HOFFMAN 20th c. American Philadelphia TRIPTYCH LANDSCAPE PAINTING Contemporary triptych painting consisting of 3 lush landscapes with dense vegetation. By 20th-21st c. Amer...
Canvas, Acrylic, Paint, Paper
Ascension in winter - Abstract peaceful winter landscape
By Jennifer L. Baker
Located in Silverthorne, CO
ON HUGE SALE! I am ready to let this beautiful painting go! n creating this piece, I was driven by the desire to evoke a serene yet profound emotion. Using oil paints, I employed an abstract approach infused with elements of expressionism and impressionism to blur the boundaries between the tangible and intangible. Gentle hues and subtle textures merge to suggest a landscape both familiar and dreamlike, inviting introspection and a sense of transcendence—a silent symphony of peace and awakening for your home. "Ascension in winter" is an ascension painting...
Oil
Trailed Off Into The Mists
By Deedra Ludwig
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rather than re-creating a literal landscape on canvas or paper, I aim to express its essence in a rich and complex form of delicately painted organic subjects that float and trail ac...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Seasons End, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Darlene Watson
Located in Yardley, PA
"Seasons End" Gestural and soft brushstrokes where Darlene captures the ideas of the very last of the Fall and the end of the year. Another season making way for the new one to a...
Acrylic
Mysteries of the Morning
By Ann Shogren
Located in Napa, CA
Abstract expressionist Ann Shogren depicts vivid landscapes and paints tapestries of colors that have simultaneously calming and rejuvenating effects on her audiences. Having lived i...
Oil
