“Bridge Crossing with Reaching Clouds” Toral Patel

“Bridge Crossing with Reaching Clouds” Toral PatelChristie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA from the College of Art and Design at Alfred University, which included a year on fellowship at the Royal Academy in Madrid. She started painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City. These meditative pieces cross the boundaries between realism and the contemporary art world, reaching the viewers heart without sentimentality or

or a building for storage

a beautiful summer day where anything felt possible”

In New Jersey she worked for the Michael Graves Architects from 1989 - 1997 designing colors for projects such as the Disney Dolphin and Swan Hotels

shaped by the amount of light and atmosphere within each scene drives me to complete each piece

"Curtained" began as a picture of an abandoned house in Red Bank

All the seasons get their chance to participate

I love when the roof catches the light and blends with the brightness of the sky

Bessemer Trust Company

stones speak

“The single most important aspect to what I do as a landscape painter is to reduce a scene to its essentials

Sillen’s work features landscape-inspired torn paper arrangements

5h x 7"diam