Marc Bohne is a landscape painter originally from Texas and currently based in Seattle, Washington.

I’ve admired his work on the web for a number of years, and had it bookmarked for inclusion on Lines and Colors, and I’m frankly surprised I haven’t featured him before now.

Bohne is wonderfully skillful in his depictions of foliage and other landscape elements as masses of value and color, using suggestion, finessed control of edges and just enough texture and detail to have your eye fill in the rest as naturalistic.

Many of his compositions are atmospheric, both in terms of planes of distance and in terms of emotional resonance.

Bohne’s style appears to be a natural match for the subdued, atmospheric beauty of Ireland, a country he has visited three times, and a collected group of his paintings of the Irish landscape will be on view in a new solo show at the Magnuson Park Gallery in Seattle, starting with an opening reception tomorrow, October 23 from 2-5PM, and running to December 17, 2016. There are additional details on his website.

There is a preview of work from the show on his website (also images above, top six) and a brief video preview on YouTube.

Bohne also has a blog on which he discusses concepts of interest relative to his painting experience.

Edgar Maxence was a French painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Maxence is generally classed as a “Symbolist”, an artistic movement in which representational images were used to suggest higher truths that could not be directly depicted. In its literary connections and penchant for elegance, the genre bears some similarities to 19th century Romantic painting and even Art Nouveau.

Maxence studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his instructors included Gustave Moreau.

Maxence favored images of women in fancy dress, often holding or surrounded by objects of significance to their role or station. His paintings often have a fascinating blend of defined and suggested areas, and make wonderful use of textural elements and lost edges.

Online resources for Maxence are unfortunately scattered; I’ve gathered what I can for you below.

Adair Payne is a California painter whose landscapes are richly textural, often deeply atmospheric and highly evocative of place, season and time of day.

Payne uses a restrained palette, emphasizing the value relationships and textural elements in his compositions. Though many of his subjects are identifiably west coast landscapes, many resonate for me with creeks and forests of the Eastern Seaboard, and I believe Payne was located in the eastern US for a time.

I particularly find resonance with some of his deep woods subjects and the creeks and woods of 19th century master William Trost Richards from the Brandywine and Wissahickon Valleys here in Pennsylvania.

Though he is equally at home in brightly lit fields and hillsides, I find Payne to be most fascinating when he is exploring the subtle light and color of shadowed streams and misty woods. In those subjects, the visual appeal of his finessed textures and naturalistic foliage emerges slowly, entrancing you much as the real environment would.

There is a brief interview with Payne on YouTube that gives you a feeling of the scale of his work, and another here, as well as on his website, in which he discusses how he hopes to communicate with his work.