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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 36x60in
About this artwork
I made this painting in January of 2026 in my studio in Washington, DC. I started with a dark underpainting and built up layers of lights. The sky has elements of the underpainting showing through.
My landscapes are meant to give a degree of ambiguity that allows them to provoke a sense of familiarity and calm without presenting a specific location. Sea, land, and sky. These most basic elements of the natural world captivate me. A band of light… dances across the surface of the water. A shadow defines the edge of a mountainside. A shift of color marks the sky below and above the clouds. These relationships of light, line, and color are my experience of a landscape, and they return when I sit in my studio to paint. These paintings come from simple ingredients: memory and imagination, sea, land, and sky.
My landscapes are meant to give a degree of ambiguity that allows them to provoke a sense of familiarity and calm without presenting a specific location. Sea, land, and sky. These most basic elements of the natural world captivate me. A band of light… dances across the surface of the water. A shadow defines the edge of a mountainside. A shift of color marks the sky below and above the clouds. These relationships of light, line, and color are my experience of a landscape, and they return when I sit in my studio to paint. These paintings come from simple ingredients: memory and imagination, sea, land, and sky.
Caroline Adams
United States
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Caroline Adams is a painter and printmaker with a background from RISD and the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts, having worked internationally. She employs oil, egg tempera, and monotype, creating abstracted landscapes through layering techniques, ethereal washes, and varied mark making. Her limited palette and mastery of light infuse depth and warmth into imagined vistas. Her work evokes calm, awe, and profound familiarity, inviting viewers to find personal resonance within ambiguous, memory-steeped settings of land, sea, and sky.