by Jill Stefani Wagner

“River Peace” Oil paintings    30 inches x 15 inches each     See Pricing

With the new year came new painting ideas. I wanted to start on a completely different series, something bigger in size and scope. But I wasn’t quite sure what it would be. As I often do when I am blocked, I started looking through my reference photos, thousands of them. I noticed that my most recent photographs were all of water, specifically rivers. They were obviously speaking to me in some way. So I decided to listen.

I had purchased some large canvases recently and they seemed a perfect foil for this new direction. I painted the piece on the left quickly, barely thinking, just letting the brush do the work. I finished in a day and a half. All my galleries asked for it, so I decided to do another one slightly different, but with the same horizon line just in case they might work together as a diptych. Now the two peaceful paintings belong together and I can’t split them up.

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This artwork was created on: Canvas
Medium: Sennelier, Gamblin, Utrecht and Richeson Oil Paints