I LOVE this painting. It’s perfectly spectacular, just look at the movement! Can you not feel the sand between your toes? Hear the call of the ocean? Feel the sun so strongly almost lulling you into a wonderful zen type calmness? The foam, the tufts of water high in the air, the horizon with the pinks and blues against the wonderful green in the water. The sun poking through the water brilliantly. WOW. So much feeling in one painting. AND guess what – it, along with 34 other paintings will be on sale on 11/1 – Here are the details…

Woohoo, I love when artists offer opportunities for a sale. This is going to be a beauty… Here are the details:

The Friends and Family Sale

Alan Phillips is having a fabulous sale just in time for Christmas. He will have 35 works of art under $350. The sale prices range between $150 and $350 and sizes range between 8”x10” – 24”x30”.

You need to sign up to receive his email newsletter (if interested, do it now!) – he will send out a newsletter on November 1, 2024 with images of the paintings in the sale. #woohoo

To sign up, visit Alan’s website at www.alanphillipstudio.com – see the signup at the bottom of the first page.

The painting featured is an 11”x14”, oil on canvas, which normally sells for $800 – it will be on sale for $250 during the Friends and Family Sale! It’s rare to find a sale so wonderful!

Local delivery/pickup is free or it can be shipped for no more than $25.00 (for most zip codes) via FedEx – rates vary for international shipping…

ARTIST’S INFO

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About the Artist…

COASTAL JOURNEY

Fine Art Paintings Celebrating Salt, Sea and Air.

“My source of inspiration is nature. Irresistible. I live to be outside in or near the water. My connection to the sea comes from my  family roots.  Three of my grandparents were born and raised on Prince Edward Island in Canada. My own immediate experiences came from summers on Lake Winnipesauke in New Hampshire and Thompson Lake in Maine, the shore in West Yarmouth and Dennis where we had a place down on Cape Cod Massachusetts. Lobster rolls and steamers were the foods that fueled my adventures up in Ogunquit, Kennebunkport and Portland, Maine.  These were the origins of my love for harbors and boats. Wooden Cat boats, Garwood and Chris Craft mahogany runabouts, Schooners, Yawls, Sloops, Tugboats and Lobster boats somehow called me to the water. I think they represent  freedom. They are a metaphor as is the ocean, somehow tangible and imaginary of journeys taken and those yet to come. I am the harbor model of Huck Finn.  My adventures have steered me to Kauai, Maui, Castine, St. Maarten, Camden, Lake Champlain, Vancouver, Quebec, Toronto, Thousand Islands, St. Augustine, Atlantic Beach, Mayport Fernandina, Long Island Sound, Newport Rhode Island and Newport Beach California, Laguna, Santa Monica and La Jolla always searching for the next surprise. The lakes, the ponds and rivers from the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania, ponds in London, Central Park New York, the Boston  Public Gardens, the Tullieries Gardens in Paris and the children’s pond boats, the Charles River in Boston is where I learned to sail, the Mystic River in Connecticut,  the St. Johns in Florida, the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers are all fodder for my  vision on canvas.  My art heroes are Manet, Degas, Velazquez, Monet, Sargent, Hopper, Wyeth, Sarolla, Chase, Hasaam, Dekooning, Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Thiebaud, Fischl,  Heindel, Fuchs, Schwartz, Vermeer, Saville and Homer just to name a few who have helped shape my voice. Thank you.  These are paintings of a place where harmony rules. I choose selected moments of wellness, ease and sanctuary. I know that nature can also be a cruel mistress for the unprepared and I respect her power and this energy can be felt in my work as well as it is captured both with velocity and restrained exuberance. It is my intention to let it pulse beneath the lyricism. The journey has been good to me. I have been given privileges through my work far beyond my expectations that brought happiness, wellness, joy ease and comfort into my life. It is in sharing those feelings through my art where I hope it brings that moment into your life too.     Alan”

👨‍🍳 A little something else about Alan. The man can cook. I’ve never met him IRL but have emailed when featuring and have commented plenty on his posts over the years. If you love art and if you love food, check out his social media (links above) – he shares beautiful (and healthy!) dishes he throws together, which looks effortless – visually so appealing and you just know it’s got to be out of this world tasty. I think a cookbook should be next! 😉 A cookbook with his paintings and recipes. #perfect

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✍️ Until next time!