Leah Gardner - blue hour on I-65

 

blue hour on I-65

Jeff Stanford

Avenue of Embers

This magnificent painting, titled Avenue of Embers, is the work of artist Jeff Stanford.

• Subject and Composition: The artwork depicts a striking and symmetrical tree-lined avenue—a natural vaulted canopy formed by large trees arching over a country path, with a central cypress or evergreen silhouetted against the light.

• Style and Technique: The style is distinctly post-impressionist and textured, characterized by a dense, fragmented brushstroke (resembling a mosaic or pointillist weave) applied with a rich impasto technique that gives strong trimensionality to the surface.

• Use of Color and Light: The color palette is extraordinarily vivid and built on complementary contrasts: the tree trunks and branches are illuminated by cool blue and azure tones, brilliantly highlighted along their edges by intense orange and golden glows that evoke the light of a setting or rising sun.

The overall effect creates a warm, almost dreamlike atmosphere where nature is reinterpreted through a vibrant explosion of light and color.

Jeff Daniel Smith (American, 1956-2023)

 

Morning Poplars
Oil on canvas

This stunning oil on canvas painting, titled Morning Poplars, is the work of American artist Jeff Daniel Smith (1956–2023).

• Subject and Composition: The artwork depicts a group of slender, vertical poplar trees ablaze with autumn shades of golden yellow and orange, standing tall against a bright, luminous blue sky.

• Style and Technique: The style is strongly impressionistic and heavily textured. Smith makes generous use of the impasto technique, applying paint with thick, vigorous brushstrokes that give a powerful plasticity and tactile quality to both the trees and the surrounding landscape.

• Color Palette: The color scheme is vibrant and expressive, as the brilliant yellows and oranges of the foliage contrast with the warm tones of the rolling hills in the background and the cool blue and violet undertones of the sky and foreground.

The piece strongly echoes the celebrated Impressionist tradition of painting poplars (such as Claude Monet's famous series), reinterpreted through a modern sensibility and a deeply personal chromatic exuberance.

DAMIEN HIRST - Great Fun

 

Great Fun (1994 - 1995)

oil on canvas

It belongs to his celebrated "Visual Candy" series—a group of works he started in the early-to-mid 1990s characterized by loose brushwork, bright pop-art colors, and tactile, confectionary surfaces that contrast sharply with his more famous conceptual and installation pieces (like his formaldehyde animals).

Romona Youngquist

 

 End of Summer

Romona Youngquist is a self-taught American painter based in Oregon. She is widely known for her tonal, moody depictions of rural American landscapes, farmsteads, and quiet country roads, capturing the transition of seasons with a deep focus on atmosphere, texture, and light.

Ksenia Yarovaya (Greek)

Eucalyptus Trees in a Sunny Harbor, Georgioupoli (2026)

Oil on canvas

Ksenia Yarovaya is a contemporary painter known for her vibrant landscape and plein-air works. Working primarily in oils, she captures the striking natural light, flora, and coastal scenery of Greece and other Mediterranean locales, bringing a fresh, expressive energy to traditional landscape painting.

Unknown artist

 

Artist and title are unknown, but I like it very much
Any suggestion?

Richard Haas (American, b.1936)

 

 View of Louvre (2004)

Oil and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 30 in.

Richard Haas (born 1936) is an acclaimed American painter and printmaker best known for his monumental architectural murals and trompe-l'œil facades on public buildings, as well as his detailed gallery paintings exploring interior spaces, urban landscapes, and architectural perspectives.