Oil Paintings


"Painting inspires me with a continual sense of discovery, and deep fulfillment in expressing glimpses of inner and outer forces connected. The smell of linseed oil alone is enough to make me long for oil painting! I love the vast array of effects which can be expressed in oil, including variation in the translucency of the paint, its thickness, and the feeling which comes through brush strokes." Alice Kelsey *Click on each image for a larger view*
"Wild Apple Clusters," 2005 Oil 18" x 24" *sold*	I found these apples clustered under an old abandoned apple tree and loved how they grouped spatially, and the horizontal light which caught them. This painting received the "Revington Arthur Award for Excellence in Painting" at Images, 2005, at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.
"Near and Far Fields" 2005 Oil 17" x 40" *sold*	This evolved from a plein air pastel. I selected jute (rather than canvas) as the support for its heavily textured surface. Since the oil version had somewhat different proportions than the original pastel, I found it necessary to adjust the composition (in quite a long search process!). I like the end result.
"Red Barn and Light," 2005 Oil 26" x 42" *sold*	This oil painting developed from an on-site pastel sketch of a barn just outside State College, inspired by the golden late afternoon light streaking across and around the solid old barn. This special light just seemed to illuminate the barn and the land together, and it felt very special to be there.
"Summer Morning Farm Lane" 2002 Oil 16" x 20" *sold*	On an early August morning, I painted the shadowed lane and hazy distance near where I grew up in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. I like the recession and sense of summer atmosphere.
"Cherry Trees- Winter," 2003 18" X 14" *sold*	This is a spot that always seems to catch my attention in all seasons. This is the first in a series reflecting seasonal changes.
"Winter Light Velkoff's Field," 2001 12" X 16" *sold*	On a morning after heavy snowfall, I was amazed to see a warm-brown sky over a near-by farm field.
"Water Lily Poem," 2001 14" X 11" *sold*	I like the simplicity of this painting which arose from admiring a spring-fed pond in central Pennsylvania. It seems to balance a pleasing patterning of lilies on the surface with suggestion of the water depth penetrating.
"Marengo Road Farm," 2000 9" X 12"	I like the bold strokes laying the snow heavily on the ground, and the house in its surroundings.
"Tributary," 2000 8" X 10"	This is an evoked image. I was painting shapes on the canvas without any particular subject in mind, when a stream-form gradually emerged. I love fly-fishing and stream-wandering, so I suppose many streams lurk in the recesses of my being.