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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 3x9in
About this artwork
Here's a little piece I created with a palette knife, letting the paint speak for itself. Its small size draws you in, inviting a closer look at the textured surface and dynamic strokes. Though abstract, I envisioned a powerful natural scene, perhaps the push and pull of the ocean. The blues, whites, and hints of warm tones create a moody depth. I love how the sweeping lines move across the support, full of energy. It's a confident little work, exploring…
the sheer physicality of oil paint. I hope it sparks your interpretation. Framed under glass in a black floating frame, the painting is gently elevated from its backing, inviting close attention, like a fragment of the past preserved. The main photo, taken on the easel, echoes how I’ve traditionally presented my miniatures, both on my website and in earlier work, and highlights the concept behind each piece.
ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
I paint what I feel. After a life in finance, the palette knife became my primary way of speaking, plainly, without ornament. My subject is land, sea, and sky, held less as record than as memory of standing inside them.
I work in oils, building surface until it holds weight, something to be touched as much as seen, according to those who collect my work. Whether the canvas is small enough to hold in one hand or large enough to walk into, the intention doesn't change: a place that is as much interior as it is geographical.
In my mid-70s, I look for Self in the work, a thing being entirely itself, answerable to no one. The work says what I couldn't otherwise say. What you find in it is yours.
www.venafrobob.com
I work in oils, building surface until it holds weight, something to be touched as much as seen, according to those who collect my work. Whether the canvas is small enough to hold in one hand or large enough to walk into, the intention doesn't change: a place that is as much interior as it is geographical.
In my mid-70s, I look for Self in the work, a thing being entirely itself, answerable to no one. The work says what I couldn't otherwise say. What you find in it is yours.
www.venafrobob.com