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Fall VineyardA s visitors and residents of California’s fabled Napa Valley wine country know, New England fails to corner the market on autumn color. June Carey’s Fall Vineyard captures the exquisite light, the splendid landscaping and vivid hues of these stately rows of vines. “I was immediately enchanted by how the sun radiated through the yellow leaves,” says June. “These vines are very old; you can tell by how wide the rows are planted. Their twisting trunks and carefully trained arms teem with a character and soul that comes only with age.” Published from the artist’s original oil painting. (See options...) |
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Fear Ye Not(See options...) |
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Fish Tales At Beaver CampWith no offense to the practitioners of the culinary arts, you just can’t beat the taste of a freshly caught trout, skillet fried on an open fire, a hundred miles from the nearest gas-range stove. Need we mention the view? It was designed and built by Mother Nature herself. As for Beaver Camp, well, you can find it anywhere you can land a de Havilland (DHC-2) Beaver, the work-horse float plane of the North Country. As for the fish tales themselves, a great deal of that depends of the company and the day. But as a rule of thumb, consider this: the wider the arms are spread, the greater the tale. Fish Tales at Beaver Camp and Bill Phillips are featured in the August issue of Western Art Collector. As they say in the story, “Bill produces a sensitive andwonderfully composed landscape, and the depth and perspective of these paintings are outstanding.” We couldn’t agree more. (See options...) |
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Garden Of Grace(See options...) |
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Garden Of The Bells(See options...) |
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Great North(See options...) |
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Greenwood CoveThe spectacular beauty of the Northern California coast comes dramatically to life in June Carey’s Greenwood Cove. "I’m always drawn to light," June explains. "And that’s what makes this place so special to me. Late in the day, it’s really breathtaking." June’s mastery of seascapes is evident in the action of the waves, the rock openings carved by the sea and the windswept cypress tree on the bluff. (See options...) |
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Guardian At The GatePoint Bonita Light, at the North West entrance to the San Francisco Bay was the second lighthouse at Point Bonita. The first light was atop the narrow headlands and shown forth at 306 feet above the roaring breakers of the Pacific. The only problem was that it was so high that most of the time it was obscured by fog. In 1877 the Point Bonita light was relocated, with great effort, to the thin strip of rock called Lands End where it stands today as a guardian at the Gate. A welcome sight to those entering the San Francisco Bay from around the globe. (See options...) |
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HeartlandBill has felt absolutely glued to his easel since last fall, compelled to paint through the intense emotions we have all felt. One of the results is this quintessentially American landscape including the reassuring icons of nature´s bountiful crops, a church steeple sounding a call to prayer and a rainbow of hope. (Attention Phillips aviation aficionados: look for a Piper Cub.) (See options...) |
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Heavenly Light(See options...) |
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Highland Song(See options...) |
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Hill Country HomecomingSometimes the image and colors in a painting can have an immediate impact on us—we were blown away with Phillips´ masterful use of every possible shade of blue in this scene from the Texas hill country. A solitary rancher in his old Ford pickup drives toward his home beneath the live oaks. In the sky flies a DC-3, heading away from a thunderstorm that is rumbling across the plains, the lightning adding white light to blue moon glow on a carpet of Texas Blue Bonnets. (See options...) |
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Hometown Christmas Memories(See options...) |
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Hometown Memories(See options...) |
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Hometown Morning(See options...) |
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Island Park(See options...) |
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Joe's Canyon(See options...) |
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Lakeside Manor(See options...) |
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Late Season, Block IslandFollowing in the footsteps of his successful Inns of Christmas series, William S. Phillips now begins Inns of the Seasons, beginning with Late Season, Block Island. William and his wife, Kristi, traveled to Block Island, Rhode Island, to research the local inns and found themselves at the Atlantic Inn, owned by Brad and Anne Marthens. “The inn gives you a feeling of Block Island as it must have been many, many years ago,” says the artist. “It has that laid-back feeling of a classic New England inn.” Other timeless Phillips landscapes include If Only in My Dreams and Summer of ’45: And All Creation Rejoiced. (See options...) |
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Little Old Mission By The Sea, Circa 1940Founded by the Spanish in 1771, the San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission is the crown jewel of Carmel-by-the-Sea and one of June Carey’s favorite subjects to paint. “I have, over the years, amassed a wonderful collection of reference on the mission from my many trips and research,” says June. “Today, the buildings and their gardens are beautiful, but when you look at photos taken 70 years ago, there was even more magic. The facades weren’t as restored as they are today, so the basilica and out buildings have a bit more of that character you’d expect from structures as old as these. You also had the chance to see more of the buildings then than you can today, especially from some of the most pleasing angles. I am tempted at times, when I visit, to make the request of cutting back some of that lush growth to reveal more of the Mission, but I have a good idea of what the response would be to that!” (See options...) |
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