Tag: acrylic painting

  • Live Your Dreams- Art on the Street in Valencia

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    My contribution to the L’Art de Career (Valenciano for Art on the Street) in Picanya, a small town on the south side of Valencia.   It was sponsored by the Women of Picanya  http://www.picanya.org/persones/dones/activitats.  There are about 50 pieces hanging from the balconies celebrating women through March 20 2022.

    Here are my comments:  

    Vivir tus sueños (Live Your Dreams)

    This expressionist piece is about living our dreams, our desire to become who we want to be, to accomplish what we want to accomplish.  We all seek the path we find most attractive.

    Expressionism rejects the restrictions of realism while remaining largely figurative-  you can recognize the object even if it’s not realistic.  It also can include abstract elements.  Here there are four  women, two playing musical instruments, one singing.  The fourth dreams of her possibilities.  Not all the figures are attractive- beauty is not a requirement for success.  There are two muses in the upper left and a third on the bottom left. They inspire the dreams.

    The dreams of our youth influence the rest of our life.  Those of our mature years, our 30’s and 40’s, are increasingly influenced by experience. As we continue to age, we tend to become more realistic but still can have our dreams, guiding our later years.

    Vivir tus sueños (Live Your Dreams)



    Esta obra expresionista trata el tema de los sueños que las personas tenemos, nuestras ganas de ser quien queremos ser, de lograr lo que queremos lograr. Cada uno de nosotros busca la libertad de seguir el camino que más nos atrae.

    El Expresionismo rechaza las restricciones del realismo, y por eso nos permite explorar formas y figuras con menos límites. En esta obra, se ve a cuatro mujeres, dos que tocan instrumentos musicales, otra que baila. La cuarta mujer sueña con las posibilidades. También se ve a dos musas a la izquierda y otra al fondo quienes le inspiran a ella. Las musas vuelan en su mundo, invitándonos a explorar mundos nuevos.

    Los sueños de nuestra juventud influyen al resto de nuestra vida. Los sueños de nuestros días más maduros, en torno a la edad de 30 y 40 años, se ven más influenciados por las experiencias que hemos tenido, haciéndonos más realistas, y reconociendo nuestros
    límites. Según vamos envejeciendo, volvemos a explorar nuestros sueños de una forma menos condicionada, ya que, en este periodo tenemos más tiempo libre y posiblemente más recursos disponibles, los sueños nos guían otra vez.

    Live Your Dreams
    Live Your Dreams
    With friends
    With friends in Picanya
    INVITACIÓ ACTE HOMENATGE C.C. ART 2022

  • Portrait of Woman – 08

    Portrait of Woman 08
    54 x 65 cm/ 21 x 26 acrylics on canvas

  • Lonely Woman II

    I happened upon a street corner in Valencia where the idea of this painting occured to me. I modified the scene, chose my own lighting and color scheme and modified the architecture, and then placed the figure.

    This is another in my series of Edward Hopper inspired pieces. I was born in the town where he was born and lived, Nyack, NY (1882-1967). His wife Josephine Nivison was also an artist. She contributed to his work as a model and as an artist.

    Lonely Woman
    Lonely Woman II 81 x 65 cm, 32″ x 26″ acylics on canvas
  • Lonely Woman

    Lonely Woman, acrylics
    Lonely Woman, acrylic painting, 81 x 65 cm aprox 32 x 26″ (sold)

    This is another in my series of Hopperesque paintings. Hopper painted lonely scenes, even when there were multiple figures as there are here, much the same but seemingly unawares. Based on a scene I came across in Ghent, Belgium last summer, as I stood in a museum looking out the window.

    Lonely Woman det 1
    Lonely Woman det 3
    Lonely Woman det 2
  • Looking Out

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    Looking Out, acrylics on canvas, 73 x 60 cm/ 29 x 23.5″

    Another in my series of Hopper inspired paintings, a woman looks out over a golden field with a thick green forest at its edge. Figures walk in a line towards the dark woods.

  • Terrazza in Roma

    Terrazza in Roma
    Terraza in Roma, 51 x 61 cm / 20 x 24″ acrylics on canvas

    On a cool night in a rack shambled section of Rome, on this oasis, we talked into the night.

  • On the Train

    On The Train
    On the Train, acrylics on clay board, 40 x 54 cm/15.7″ x 19.7″

    Inspired by a work by Edward Hopper, this celebrates train travel in older times

  • Urk, painting

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    Urk, acrylics on paper 12.5 x 22″, 57 x 32 cm, sold

    “Urk” is a port on the Ijsselmeer in the Netherlands. We visited it on our boat Viking in the summer of 2020.

    I write about it here:

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    https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/irks-on-the-way-to-urk/

  • On the Terraza, acrylics

    On the Terraza, 23 x 30″, 57 x 75 cm in acrylics on Canson paper

    Looking through the double glass doors, the terraza stetches about 10 meters along the street 5 floors below. The sun hits portions of the walls and floor of this outdoor area. A neighbor looks on.

  • A Bakery in Petxina

    An ode to Manet

    This scene is based upon our local bakery, and inspired by Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Petxina (pronounced ‘Pechina’) is a neighborhood of Valencia. The bakery is around the corner from us.