Monthly:October 2015

Seascape Paintings Hanging in the Gardner Colby Gallery, Naples

From the Left Aqua I | 30×30 | Oil Encaustic Sand Dune Bay | 48×48 | Oil Aqua III | 36×36 | Oil Mini Abstract Ocean Diptych | 8×16 | Oil For further information on any of these paintings contact Nancy or Pamela at Gardner Colby Galleries Artist Notes Living on the east coast of the United States I look out on the Atlantic Ocean and I’m challenged as an artist to capture its vastness. The stillness and peace of […]

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Small Impasto Botanical Paintings

Artist Notes These Little Gems are all 8″x6″ paintings on board – using lots of paint and a fully loaded brush and palette knife.   For purchase and pricing please contact me at claire@cjk-studio.com  

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Contemporary New Seascape Painting – “Aqua”

Available at Gardner Colby Gallery, Naples Aqua | 36×36 | Oil on Linen | CJK Artist Notes This painting is about having the bravery to paint that one heavy impasto wave in a confident stroke. The foreground fragmenting was inspired very loosely from a painting by Henri-Edmond Cross – the Golden Isles, 1891/92 Although the subject of the canvas is indeed the islands, Cross has eliminated all picturesque elements and concentrated on the effects of light on colour. The various elements in […]

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Painting Progression Video by Artist CJK

“Embrace” | 42″x 42″ | Oil Encaustic Private Collector’s painting “Embrace” – View this short 1min video showing the progression of this large scale botanical encaustic painting – artist CJK at play with flames and flowers!!! Thanks to Gardner Colby Gallery, Naples and the Private Collector for this wonderful commission project. Flowers by 57 Treasury, St Augustine.

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Selection of Paintings from Figure, Landscape, Still Life and Seascape Series

Its an ongoing process to develop each series featured. Figure | “Confused” | 12″x12″ | Available via Modern Villa Gallery, OR Landscape | “Intercoastal Symphony” | 52″x 66″ | Available via CJK-Studio, FL Still Life | “Peaceful Posy” | 24″x24″ | Available via CJK-Studio, FL Seascape | “Aqua” | 36″x36″ | Available via Gardner Colby Galleries, FL

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