Finding That Peace

Finding That Peace
Karen F. Rose
oil
Available Village Arts Framing and Gallery

What are you looking for?

Asking that of a friend the other day gave me a gift.  Her answer was "just a bit of peace and I find that in your paintings." What a compliment!

I am drawn to painting the atmosphere and mood of the landscape. Those transitions in the day when the light just begins to come up over the horizon or that last glimmer of sun glows in the distance and I am so honored when someone relates to my tonalist paintings.
This painting, Finding That Peace, will be on exhibit at the Winter Evening Artists' Open House this Friday and Saturday Jan. 25 and 26 at Village Arts Framing and Gallery in Sawgrass Village in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Hope you will stop by the gallery. I would love to talk with you about my art.
Peace.

Golden Meditation..Melt into the Twilight

Golden Meditation
© Karen F Rose
oil on canvas
16" x 20"
available

My painting, Golden Meditation received a supreme compliment the other day from a lady who came into the gallery. I saw her just lost in thought staring at the painting.
I waited then approached her and asked, "Seems like you are enjoying the painting"?
She paused, smiled, softly sighed and said,
"If this painting was in my home I would come home from work, sit down and just get lost in it ...melt into the twilight."

Wow did that make my heart sing. Thank you!
If you would like to see the painting in person, it's on exhibit at Melrose Bay Art Gallery in Melrose, FL. I also have paintings you might enjoy at The High Springs Art Co-op through the month of September.

New Member in St Augustine Art Association

St Augustine Art Association

So pleased to be a brand new member of the St. Augustine Art Association and have my tonalist oil painting The Sentinel 

on display through September 29th. 

Hope you might have a chance to see the Fall member show. 

St. Augustine, founded in 1565 is the oldest city in the United States with lots of charm. history and art. 

If you visit, you might consider staying at

The Westcott House Bed and Breakfast Inn in St. Augustine, a victorian gem with private balconies that overlook the Matanzas Bay and is just a block or two from the St. Augustine Art Association.

Here's a link to the St. Augustine Art Association to get directions and hours.

Have fun.

Painting a May Memory

Le Rêve

oil on linen

Karen F. Rose

In Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting, the author stresses the importance of painting from memory.  We "relive our experiences and the effect they produced on us. The mind is dealing more with the  expression of thought than with the the clever application of paint".

After hearing of the environmental disaster just unfolding in the Gulf on that day in May, I stood at the water's edge. There was stillness and unbelievable serenity. How beautiful yet how fragile these waters are. 
While other painters around me were creating beautiful scenes of the manicured grounds; banyan trees, palms and flowers. My thoughts were "on the Gulf" hoping what I had heard on the news was just a dream.

On the Prairie Looking West

Looking West, Karen F Rose,

8x8",oil on canvas

© 2009

One of three paintings to be displayed at the

upcoming exhibit Small Works, Big Ideas,Thinking

Inside the Box at the Melrose Bay Gallery,

in Melrose, Fl.

For this show each artist is given a display

"box" space-18" x 42" and a requirement that no

painting plus frame is larger than 12x12".

So you get it right? We have to think "inside"

the box.

Like Atlantic Nocturne, (posted on Oct. 20.),

this painting has a softening of

focus and hint of form leaving room

for the viewer to look and linger within

the the frame at it's quiet veil of color yet

connect with their own memory.

My hope is to take you outside the box.

Have I succeeded?

Atlantic Nocturne

Atlantic Nocturne, 8x8", oil on canvas
2009 Karen F. Rose
For the past six months I have been studying,

observing and reading about tonalism.

This style of painting is serene, emotional

and even spiritual, capturing the mood of dawn,

twilight and moonlit scenes.

A move in this direction as a painter is going back to a way

that I painted years ago, using glazes to create a luminous

quality to the painting.