Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Italian painter Alessandro Tofanelli’s haunting landscapes conjure a feeling of stillness and solitude. Whether that’s a positive or negative is, I think, somewhat indeterminate. He paints in Italy, however — for me — his emphasis on scenes on or at the edge of water feel particularly evocative of the time I spent as a child…

David Bottini is a contemporary painter whose paintings are often filled with dappled light — sparkling on the surface of streams, highlighting paths and glinting off of bright autumn leaves. His paintings are rendered in acrylic, but in a painstaking method involving layers and layers of glazes; a method inspired by his love of the…

Pierre Adolphe Valette (sometimes referenced simply as Adolphe Valette) was a painter originally from France, who spent much of his career living and working in England. He is noted in particular for his atmospheric cityscapes, full of mist and mystery. He was influenced by the French Impressionists’ fascination with the effects of atmosphere on light,…