Robin Purcell watercolors-2 |
Robin Purcell :
" New England , . , . . , (Granville Redmond) (William Wendt). . , , , . , , , . , , ".
Buena Vista
Corral de Tierra Afternoon
Red Devil Summer
Tuscon 1
Pacific Grove Pink. Coastal California.
Pebble beach May. Coastal California
Santa Cruz Swirls. Coastal California.
Carmel Knolls View. Coastal California
Point Lobos Walk. Coastal California
Quiet Evening
Bernardus view
Ridge at the Mouth
Five O clock Shadow. Coastal California.
Near Garrapata. CoastalCalifornia.
Oxalis At Wilder. Coastal California
Holman Ranch view
Garrapatta
View to Pleasanton Ridge
Spring Hill
Poppy Hill
Pacific Meadow. Coastal California.
Twisted Mountain
Hillside Vineyard
Old Blackhawk View
Corral Canyon
Zuma Canyon
Top of the World Carmel Valley
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Top of the World
Last Light Carmel Valley
Bartholemew Park
New Vines Sonoma
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Valley Vertigo
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Latest work
carmel mission ranch
A signature member of the National Watercolor Society and the California Watercolor Association. I have particpated in plein air events in Northern California: the Carmel Plein Air Painting Competition, The Sonoma Plein Air event, The Pt Reyes Invitational Paintout and the Santa Cruz MAH invitational event.
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Robin Purcell has a unique style in which quilt-like patches of color overlap and flow across both the paper and the landscape. She varies the tone and hue of the colors, which encourages our eyes to move from one area to another; notice how this works with the four different patches of burnt orange (lower left to lower right of the image). More elaborately, she does the same thing with the variations of the greens, from the first three triangular shapes in the foreground to the many shapes changing in intensity as they recede back through the hills.
Purcell’s style has hints of early 20th-century children’s illustrated books, with the patchwork landscape of Southwest England, and Vermeer’s abstract patches of light and shadow.
This work along with a few other of Purcell’s watercolors will be on display in the group show, Landscape with a Modern Edge at the Newberry Gallery in Santa Monica.
Michael Newberry
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