Gary

Window pane 

An abstract: a tree in a flood of cerulean blues being blown; greens pushed by white waves and splashes of red-orange- green purple leaves scattered about.

Autumn in a Swirl

An abstract painting with vivid pastel colors that resembles both large and tiny flowers from above. 

Flowers Bloom 

A non objective abstract containing circles and various linear marks in black, white and shades of olive green. 

Edith

My arm is reaching out from the right edge of the picture plane to shake the hand of the shadow of a figure reflected on the ground. His tennis shoed feet are visible from the lower-left corner of the picture. The light in the image shows that it is a sunny day and yet, shaking the hand of a shadow reminds us of our isolation.

Hand Shake Shadow

A black on white (sumi-e ink with bamboo brush strokes) painting of a young man holding a rabbit   In his arms and feeding it. 

Madhav Feeding Angel Her Medicine 

Ink painting of a 1968 Harley Davidson Sportster motorcycle. Black and white image, with a red chop in the upper right hand corner, black initial S in the lower right.

68 HD Sportster

Afternoon light shining through a grove of pines strikes a gravel driveway giving it a lavender hue with a bright yellow green meadow and white fencing for horses in the distance.

Keeping Horses Across The Street

An oil painting of an Airstream trailer that was parked under a streetlight in the evening.

The Bambi

Is that what I think it is?

Mr. Piano Owl is a plump black and white striped owl with red flat feathers around his eyes and red spiked feathers on the crown of his head. He sits on a yellow/bronze branch and behind him is a bright blue background.

Mr. Piano Owl from the Parliament of Owls

A painting of a body of water that has several large outcrops of rocks breaking the surface, the viewer is looking through bursts of bright yellow leaves and evergreen boughs out to a treelined jut of land out in the distance. The day is bright yet the sky has some energy in it, which suggests a brisk breeze on a fall day.

We Belong Here

A painting of flying nines, on a background of blues and purples, lavender nines glittered in white with lavender glittered wings.

Winged Nines

A black and white portrait of a young woman looking down; there are shapes that make up the portrait and each shape has a single solid color, there is no blending between values.

Portraiture In Fragments

Red, yellow blue, green and white abstract animals in a quarter circle ring.

The Circus

An abstract expressionist painting with primary color and chaotic scribbling.  The artist utilized brushes and their bare hands to create the painting.  

Unfiltered Joy

This 8x10" abstract watercolor painting is of underwater plants. The soft background wash is in contrast to the detailed sharp forground plants. 

Waterscape

This is a painting from the viewpoint of a bedroom in a turn of the century house. The viewer sees the corner of the bed in the lower left and then looks down a short hallway to a door with a window at the end. The sun is entering the hall and stretching into the bedroom very brightly at a low angle. The painting contains warm browns and greens.

Sun in the Hall

A monarch butterfly sitting on a purple coneflower on a green background.

Monarch on a Coneflower 

A painting of a harbor town on the edge of the ocean, with sailboats in the bay.

Northeast Harbor III

A painting of a tree line silhouetted against a glowing coral and violet evening sky. The foreground is a softly lit grassy hillside. The use of palette knives and brushes create marks that add a rich textural dimension.   

Going Home

A painting of a river winding through Trondheim, Norway at 2 am under a midnight sun.

Midnight Sun In Norway

A realistic portrait of a black woman with long dark hair, she is looking to her left with a neutral facial expression. The background contains an array of blue, teal, and white colors marbled together.

Chrystal

Splatter is a study of color and negative white space. The corners are framed with pink squares and hearts, while the center of the painting fills with color in a lively explosion of warm tones and metallics. 

Splatter

A painting of a robin sitting on a branch with crabapple flowers in spring 

The robin 

A self portrait with a frustrated/angry red background of me choking on a power pole, destroyed tree, and bike for a proposed bike trail. 

Choking On Progress

A painting of three gourds of various textures in colors of gold, orange, cream and green.  They are arranged so they appear to be having a conversation.

Autumn Chat

Cracked earth on a golden parched landscape with a setting sun along the horizon with swirling clouds above. 

Drought

A painting of a rooster crowing in the early morning from a rooftop in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogota. 

Magrugar en Bogota

This is a classic Fiat 500.  The medieval towers around Piazza Cisterna in San Gimignano, Italy are reflected in the very shiny black color of the car.

Gary, 2012

Janelle Kay Doyle