A Belgian artist: Constant Permeke

Landscape

Constant Permeke (31 July 1886 – 4 January 1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism.

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Oliver Akers Douglas

Beech Wood, 2008

Croplines, Winkelbury Hill

Windy Wylye Watermeadow

Born in 1973, OAD is best known for his dramatic interpretations of the English landscape, and has even been described by critic Matthew Dennison as, "the foremost landscape painter of his generation".

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Maynard Dixon

Cloud World, c. 1925

 Shapes of Fear, 1930-32

 Volcanic Cones (Boulder, Nevada), 1934

Striped Mesa, c.1943

 Sculptured Sandstone

“To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of the land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.” -Thomas McGuane

Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was a 20th-century American artist whose body of work focused on the American West. He was married for a time to American photographer Dorothea Lange.

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Beautiful Landcapes

Hugo Liner, Landscape

Jørn Holm (b. 1939)

Sandy Ostrau

Neil Pinkett, Abbey Pool, Tresco

Conor Murphy, landscapes

Killarney the Kingdom of Kerry

credits: http://conor-murphy.artistwebsites.com/art/all/all/all

Maurice Sapiro, Landscapes (6*)

2010-2011

Sunset

2010-2011

Last Light, 2010

Suzanne Valadon, A Road in the Countryside

Church at Belgodere, Corsica, 1913

Farm Montcorin, 1918

A Road in the Countryside, 1918

Victorine ou La tigresse, 1919

Torso with Blue Ribbon, 1921

Catherine Reclining Nude on a Leopard Skin, 1923

Yellow Daisies, 1926

Nu allonge, 1928

The daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of fifteen, but a year later, a fall from a trapeze ended that career. In the Montmartre quarter of Paris, she pursued her interest in art, first working as a model for artists, observing and learning their techniques, before becoming a noted painter herself. She modelled for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (who gave her painting lessons), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, and is known to have had affairs with the latter two. In the early 1890s she befriended Edgar Degas who, impressed with her bold line drawings and fine paintings, purchased her work and encouraged her efforts. She remained one of Degas' closest friends until his death.

The most recognizable image of Valadon would be in Renoir's Dance at Bougival from 1883, the same year that she posed for City Dance. In 1885, Renoir painted her portrait again as Girl Braiding Her Hair. Another of his portraits of her in 1885, Suzanne Valadon, is of her head and shoulders in profile. Valadon frequented the bars and taverns of Paris along with her fellow painters, and she was Toulouse-Lautrec's subject in his oil painting The Hangover.

Valadon painted still lifes, portraits, flowers, and landscapes that are noted for their strong composition and vibrant colors. She was, however, best known for her candid female nudes. A perfectionist, she worked on some of her oil paintings for up to 13 years before showing them. She also worked in pastel. Her first exhibitions, held in the early 1890s, consisted mostly of portraits. She regularly showed work at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris

Suzanne Valadon at 15

Dance at Bougival, by Renoir; the girl is Suzanne Valadon (1883)

Profile portrait of Suzanne Valadon, by Renoir

The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon), by Toulouse Lautrec

Suzanne Valadon - Portrait of Erik Satie (1866-1925) c.1892

One of the first oils, dating from 1893, was of composer Erik Satie. Valadon and Satie had an intense six-month love affair in 1893. A smitten Satie proposed marriage after their first night together but she turned him down. For Satie, the intimacy of his relationship with Valadon would be the only one of its kind in his life, leaving him at its end, he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness."

In Montmartre, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes had an affair with one of his models, Suzanne Valadon, who would become one of the leading artists of the day as well as the mother, teacher, and mentor of Maurice Utrillo.

Suzanne Valadon peinte par Puvis de Chavannes (1880)

Alf Lindberg, Landscape

Alf Lindberg (Swedish, 1905-1990)

Landscape

House in Landscape

Composition with Face

Kurt Jackson (16)

Solent moonlight

Liffey

Moon

 Kurt Jackson - Five very white boys Oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm

 Study

 Sturrachs Lochan

 Hot Scilly, June 2011, Acrylic on board

The call of the sea at dusk, 2013

Step softly, tread lightly, 2012

A one-mile walk Falling dusk, 2013

Kurt Jackson (born 1961) is a British painter whose large canvases reflect a concern with natural history, ecology and environmental issues. Born in Blandford, Dorset, he developed an early interest in natural history and landscape. He studied zoology at St Peter's College, Oxford, but spent most of his time attending classes at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art or painting in the countryside around Oxford. In 1984 he and his wife Caroline Jackson moved to Cornwall; currently he lives and works near St Just, Penwith.

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