Tanja Frost

Golden Pause

2025

Artist Comments
This is an original landscape painting created with a palette knife inspired by Bliss Carmen.

About the Artist
Russian-born Tatiana Iliina lives in Montreal and has sold paintings to collectors all over the world. She works with both abstract and representational compositions, with many pieces falling somewhere in between. Some of Tatiana’s paintings could be interpreted as a landscape or a cityscape, or a non-representational articulation of color, giving the viewer the opportunity to make independent decisions about the work. Her long brushstrokes and painterly style are created using a palette knife, resulting in richly textured canvases. Working in a range of colors from muted grays to bold blues, vibrant purples, and glowing oranges, Tatiana’s portfolio reflects an array of moods while maintaining a focus on her iconic style.

As a Dream...

This is an original palette knife forest painting. Size: 12" x 12" x 1" Sides of the canvas are painted grey. Protective coat of satin varnish applied. The painting is signed on ...

Artist Comments
The Russian forests that I grew up exploring were somewhat like those in eastern Canada and the Northeast US. You can just as e...

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The forest stood at the edge of a new season, caught between summer's farewell and autumn's first whisper. Young birches reach eagerly toward the sky, their sle...

Artist Comments
Artist Valerie Berkely presents a fiery sunset above thick silhouetted trees. The warm rays of the sun brighten the landscape with cooling hues of violet spreading across the forest floor. With her finger painting technique, Valerie uses transparent oils on top of gold iridescent acrylic textures creating a luminescent glow. It results in a captivating image with a gentle flow of movement.

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.”

Words that describe this painting: small, trees, sunlight, sun, sunset, oilpaint, nature, forest, impressionism, etching, impressionism, nature, oil painting, purple

Golden Glow...

Landscape oil painting of the forest lake. Studio painting done after the plain air on the location. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of ...

Landscape at the lake in the forest. Studio painting after the plain air at the location. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticit...

Artist Comments
"Whether it's fall, winter, spring, or summer it's always time for some colorful birch!" exclaims artist Lisa Elley. Golden yellow leaves leap off the canvas ...

Artist Comments
"Every fall season, I embark on a sojourn to the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains to soak in the changing fall colors of the birch and quaking aspens," says ar...

Along the paths of the Norfolk Broads during the winter months Rachael takes inspiration from the frost covering the trees and the stillness of the water. Looking for the colours in nature on a cold winters day Rachael can find the soft pinks and purples in the grasses and warm flickering light through the trees. The white birch in the foreground gives a wonderful texture to the painting and the flowing river draws your eye to a magical place beyond. Using a number of photographs she creates one painting. Her use of bright colour and lively technique gives a fresh and cheerful sentiment to the work. Rachael Dalzell...