Gary J. Kirkpatrick

Category: People and portraits

  • Girls on a Dock

    Girls on a Dock

    Girls on a Dock

    Girls on a Dock
    Girls on a Dock, pen and ink, 4″ x 6″

  • Peg and Sari

    A Fauvish and expressionistic piece about the close relationship between the women.  The visual weight of the red hair flows into the complements of yellow and blue, grounding the composition.  Free flowing strokes and strong colors.

    Peg and Sari

  • Hungarian Woman

    Intelligent, widely read, art aficionado, speaks multiple languages, resident of Paris and a friend since 2000.

    Hungarian Woman
    Hungarian Woman, acrylics, 20 x 24,” 50 x 60 cm (commission), prints only

     

     

  • Peg Visits Vincent Van Gogh’s Room in Arles

    Peg Visits Vincent Van Gogh’s Room in Arles

    Peg Visits Vincent’s Room in Arles

     

     

    Peg Visits Vincent's Room in Arles
    Peg Visits Vincent’s Room in Arles, digital, prints only

  • Emma Gonzalez, Stoneman Douglas high school

    Emma Gonzalez, Stoneman Douglas high school, student activist. She is among the amazing young people who responded forcefully and with dignity at the shootings and the complicity of right wing America.

    Emma Gonzalez, Stoneman Douglas high school, student

     

    Digital painting

  • Manuel in Vincent’s Room (Digital painting)

    I painted a portrait of Manuel, one of the excellent models I have been privileged to work with in Valencia.  I put him into my rendition of Van Gogh’s Room at Arles.  

     

    Manuel in Vincent's Room
    Manuel in Vincent’s Room, prints

  • Peg in Scene from ‘Water’

    Peg in Scene from ‘Water’

    I took a scene from The Shape of Water and placed fantasy images of my wife into the scene.  It’s moody yet comforting simultaneously.  

    Peg in a Hopper Scene,
    Peg in a Hopper Scene, 11.5*16.5′, 30*42 cm acrylics on paper.  SOLD

     

     

     

  • Peg Finds Vincent’s Chair (digital painting)

     

    Peg Finds Vincent’s Van Gogh’s Chair

    Peg Finds Vincent's Chair
    Peg Finds Vincent’s Chair, prints only

     

    “Oh my, you are a most talented artist!  Peg by Vincent’s Chair is superb, and the lovely young singer is mesmerizing.  Also the dancers “only having eyes for each other” is so well captured.”  From an email
     
     
     
     
  • Couple Embraces II – In Love with Love

    Couple Embraces II – In Love with Love

    In the Enamorado con Amor/ In Love with Love series, expressions of affection.  Background reminiscent of Kupka’s “Madame Kupka.”   Without love, where would we be now?

     

    Couple Embraces II, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5", 30 x 42 cm
    Couple Embraces II, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5″, 30 x 42 cm

  • Couple Dances IV

    Couple Dances IV

    This is another in the Enamorado con Amor/ In Love with Love series, expression of affection in this case as in some of the other coming by means of dance.  Background reminiscent of Kupka’s “Madame Kupka.”   

     

     

    Couple Dances IV, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5", 30 x 42 cm
    Couple Dances IV, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5″, 30 x 42 cm