Shara Hughes, whose invented landscapes have intoxicated me since I saw one nearly 10 years ago, is at a turning point. At 42, she’s getting married to her longtime partner and fellow artist, Austin ...

Light and color are plein-air artist Margot Lennartz’s inspirations. The La Crescenta resident uses them in her oil paintings, especially one in which she has captured the brilliant oranges found in ...

DARTMOUTH — On his 87th birthday, artist Frank McCoy was busy painting one of his well-known landscapes, part of his enthusiastic work on some new originals for several upcoming summer shows. He ...

NORTHFIELD – Artist John S. Smith VIII sometimes changes reality with his paintings. Working from photographs he has taken, he exercises his artistic license to add or eliminate details to enhance his ...

“Views of San Francisco,” a show of plein air oil paintings by Diana Jaye, opens Tuesday at Viewpoints Gallery in Los Altos. The exhibit will remain through Jan. 1. Jaye’s paintings, done on location ...

John Constable's The Hay Wain presents a bucolic view of England – but there's a dark side to the idealised rural image. There's no doubt that Constable (1776-1837), who leaned more towards ...

Maybe it’s to buy a cute top or knickknack, maybe it’s to browse landscape oil paintings or maybe it’s just to enjoy a nice conversation with a new face, at least that’s what’s possible when you visit ...