Everglades Horizon
Inquire Size: 48 x 36Medium: Oil on canvas©2020 Tom Weinkle For me, one aspect of the visual beauty of the Everglades is in the open space where sky meets water.
Landscape
Big Cypress Abstraction
Inquire Size: 36 x 48Medium: Oil on canvas©2020 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by exploration through Big Cypress Preserve. I’m excited by the idea of representing place with abstracted shapes in an effort to create a transformative impression of the landscape.
Cypress Iteration
Inquire Size: 60 x 48Medium: Oil on canvas©2020 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by swamp walks through Big Cypress Preserve. I’m drawn to light in nature, capturing colors seen on location and also in my imagination.
Pineland Iteration
Inquire Size: 48 x 60Medium: Oil on canvas©2020 Tom Weinkle This painting was inspired by a walk through a pineland area in Alachua, Florida. I’m interested in exploring the edges between the viewer seeing the paint medium as a surface and physical texture and imagined space
ORV Trail – Big Cypress Preserve
Inquire Size: 35 x 53Medium: Pastel on paper©2020 Tom Weinkle I’ve painted this scene before in a smaller format. The grand drama of the incoming storm, chasing away the sunlight in the foreground that afternoon still haunts me.
Massachusetts
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on paper©2020 Tom Weinkle One fall, I spent a week or so exploring waterfalls in Western Massachusetts. A short hike through forests was usually required. That old adage about journey vs. destination still comes to mind.
Bear Lake 2
Sold Size: 52 x 34Medium: Pastel on paper©2020 Tom Weinkle There is so much to see in Big Cypress Preserve. At a glance it may all seem the same, but upon further study, there is a melange of nature that can hold my attention forever.
Bear Lake 1
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2020 Tom Weinkle I have spent much time in and around Big Cypress Preserve. I had the hiking paths of this campground all to myself one winter morning. The trees seemed to rise up, showing their beauty and clamoring for sunlight.
Aspen Hillside
Inquire Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2020 Tom Weinkle I’m lucky that family draws me to the west from time to time. Fall is my favorite time, when the intensity of warm color in a colder climate is unmatched.
Alachua 3
Sold Size: 40 x 27Medium: Pastel on archival paper©2020 Tom Weinkle I’m continually drawn to stands of trees where I find the mix and collision of color and value irresistible.