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]]>This talented artist creates stunningly detailed oil paintings of landscapes that can be found in different parts of the world. She then shares her works on social media to offer internet users a chance to “travel” to amazing places without having to leave their homes.
In a recent interview, Myers revealed that she started painting landscapes a few years ago after coming up with the idea to capture the scenery of different countries on canvas. She started with the countries familiar to her, including her native United States, her husband’s home country of Mexico, and her family’s country of origin, Scotland. The series soon expanded to other territories.
So far, Myers has done paintings with landscapes from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, and Nepal, among others, but doesn’t intend to stop there. She wants to eventually have a painting representing a landscape from every country in the world.
“Having only painted for only three years or so, I’m also trying to expand my portfolio and grow my skill—I feel like each painting has taught me something unique,” she explains.
Check out more of her paintings below.
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]]>“I’ve never tried to make a painting look like a photograph, but time and again, when I feel I have finished, the work looks quite realistic,” he admitted in a piece he shared with Artsy Shark. Primarily self-taught, Sutter discovered an aptitude for composition, value, and hue in his mid 50’s, having not picked up a paintbrush in decades and never shown any of his work before.
Nowadays, his work is well recognized, having gained a few awards in the process, as well as memberships in the prestigious Copley Society of Art in Boston and the North Shore Arts Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Working mostly from source photos that either he or his clients have taken, and sometimes combining aspects of multiple photos, his work captures the very heart of Boston city life.
As for his toolbox, Sutter mainly works with acrylic, gouache, and watercolor. “I’ll be drawn to a set of colors or an interesting shape or to a scene I’d like to capture, but one that’s a bit off the bell curve for other artists,” he explains his creative instinct.
Here are some highlights from his Instagram page:
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]]>Born in Rhode Island and currently based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley, Edlund admits to being excited by the natural world and its inhabitants. This excitement is, in turn, expressed through her paintings. “The natural world compels me to explore it, delve deeper into it, and use the tools at my disposal to paint some frisson of my visceral connection to it,” she further explained in a piece she wrote for Artsy Shark. “All of my work is a communication between me and you, inviting you to create your own narrative within the context of the art and to experience the art in a positive and satisfying way.”
A master painter known internationally and collected in Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, and the United States, Edlund is represented by galleries in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In October 2018, she was a recipient of the Dutchess County Executive Arts Award for Individual Artist that recognizes an individual residing in Dutchess County [NY], whose achievements in her discipline are widely recognized and who has demonstrated a compelling or unique artistic vision.
“I find creative stimulation in unlikely places, such as a city street bathed in glistening, late-day light following a rain shower,” says Edlund. “Such stimuli are the seeds from which ideas grow.” Take a look at some of her stunning artwork:
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]]>After graduating from college, Hanson entered the art trade as a professional, inspired by landscapes and vantage points only beheld by the most adventurous. After a lifetime of experimenting in different styles and mediums, it wasn’t until Hanson began rock climbing at Red Rock Canyon that her painting style was consolidated by a single inspiration and force of nature. Rock climbing among the brilliantly colored cliffs of Nevada and Utah, watching the seasons, and the light change daily across the desert, provided endless inspiration for her work.
In these beautiful surroundings, Hanson decided to dedicate herself to creating one painting every week for the rest of her life. She has stuck to that decision ever since and has for the past decade been developing a unique, minimalist technique of placing impasto paint strokes without layering – a technique which has become known as “Open-Impressionism.”
Transforming landscapes into abstract mosaics of color and texture, her impasto application of paint lend a sculptural effect to her art. “I think the modern or contemporary art world shies away from landscapes or natural beauty,” she remarked in an interview with Art Aesthetics Magazine. “I don’t really understand why since it is one of the most pleasing art forms to the eye and certainly one of the most popular. I have a hard time keeping up with the demand for my work, so I am not so concerned about what the great ‘curators’ or ‘critics’ might say, but what the actual collectors and fans think and feel as a result of my works.”
Take a look at some of her striking landscapes:
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]]>But though her landscapes seem like imagined dreamscapes, in actuality they lean on Shaw’s reflections on her surroundings. Based between Melbourne and the US, her paintings are also very much inspired by her travels around the world. “Most of the time I really need to experience a place before I make work about it,” she explained in an interview with Lost At E Minor. “Recently, I did a residency at SIM in Iceland that allowed me to travel to some amazing places there. The lava flows and melting glaciers create incredible sculptural forms, which inspires how I translate this into the paintings. I am very visceral.”
Other times, she is inspired by what she calls “scientific facts”, such as that illustrated in Isao Hashimoto’s work, ‘1994-1998’. “With these works – for the exhibition ‘Nightingale’, for instance – I chose different locations were nuclear testing had occurred and tried to imagine a nuclear flash moment.”
According to Shaw, her interest in landscape painting sparked after a visit to Central Australia. “A visit to Central Australia in 2004 really helped me coalesce ideas about the materiality of paint and how this could connect with the material world through landscape,” she says. “The sedimentary layers of rocks literally looked like the paint I was playing around with in my studio, and it started from there.”
Her work has been exhibited around the world, anywhere from New York and San Francisco, to London and Hong Kong. But you can also peek inside her landscapes through Instagram:
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