John David Wissler… WOW! His work is so incredible, especially if you love these types of views, which I do! This, to me, is SO MAINE. The water is fabulous with the island in the distance. Can’t you feel the movement? I love how it’s kind of abstract closer to the shore. WONDERFUL!

There are plenty more where this came from. JD has a great collection of paintings, each as fabulous as the next! It was torture trying to pick only two, please go check them out!

Read a blip about JD (John David, for those of you who are wondering) from the Lancaster Galleries website:

“My passion has always been the landscape. I feel a sense of history when painting… the painters I admire and study, Corot, Constable, Turner, Inness, Bonard, Resika…the history of the land itself and my own familiar connection to it. Painting comes through the study of nature…transformed, not merely copied. Seeing the immediacy of the place…what strikes me first. The way trees react to fields, colour to colour, shape to shape…pushing and pulling the plastic nature of the picture plane, creating believable space.

I find the challenge of using what I have observed, taking it to my studio, and creating a new painting invigorating. Drawing upon the memory of place and experience…using the language I have learned from nature, trying to keep the painting fresh…space, clarity, surprise…that’s painting!” – John David Wissler

Catch you back here tomorrow!

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