June 24, 2014jasonoliva

Landscape With Moon 2010: A Recently Sold Painting by Jason Oliva

Jason-Oliva-Landscape-with-moon-paintingLandscape With Moon. 2010. Acrylic on Canvas. 24″ x 30″. (Sold)

Landscape With Moon: A Recently Sold Painting

Landscape With Moon is one of the paintings that appeared in my art show at New York Vintners back in 2010. I painted many of the works for this show at my parent’s place in North Carolina, where Sophie and I stayed for a couple of months, having recently returned to NYC after a few years in the UK, followed by an eight month stint in France, Italy and  Greece.

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Painting Landscape With Moon in North Carolina. 2010.

Landscape as Subject Matter

I began the original sketches for Landscape With Moon way back in 2003/2004. It was a time when the landscape as subject matter informed several of my paintings. A number of these works I painted in oil rather than my usual acrylic and they depicted bright blue skies looming over yellow fields. Around this time I also painted a couple of blue and white winter landscapes, also in oil, and two acrylic desert landscapes in warm, natural hues.

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Field II. 2004. Oil on canvas. 48″ x 36″. (Private Collection, NYC)

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Collector with Field II. NYC. 2004.

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Field. 2003. Oil on canvas. 32″ x 72″ (Private collection. NYC)

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Winter Landscape. 2004. Oil on canvas. 48″ x 32″. (for sale)

Moody Skies in Greece

For some reason I didn’t get around to turning the Landscape With Moon sketch into a painting until many years later. I think what got the ball rolling again was mine and Sophie’s recent trip to Greece. The villa we were staying in had a balcony, which we would sit on most evenings with a drink while watching the sun go down over the sea.

We were there in June and Greece was experiencing a rather unseasonal heatwave. As a result, the weather would often get quite stormy, which in turn would produce these moody, blueish, sometimes purple skies … I think it was this that influenced the palette for Landscape With Moon.

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Sophie on balcony underneath stormy skies. 2010.

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Jason on balcony in Alonnisos, Greece. 2010.

Visit the Studio.

We are heading over to the UK in August so come and see us in the studio throughout the rest of June and July. You’re all welcome. There will be art, music and wine!

Studio Address:

21 Warren Street,

New York,

NY 10007

 

Cheers!

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