Eternal summer
For a plein air painter, there are few better spots than Naples, Florida. Chicago artist and Naples transplant Trudy Bentley Rech conjures Florida’s eternal summer — the climate, the light and the denizens of that world — in work that’s intensely colored, both impressionistic and representational, broadly rendered and detailed where it counts.
"Finding a unique perspective or moment in time is part of my drive," she writes. "My work is all about seizing time with pigment."
Bentley Rech’s work is on display in two exhibitions: "Trudy Bentley Rech, Oil Paintings," the United Arts Council at Marco Airport, through June 30; and "I’ll Take Romance," Falciglia Art Gallery, International College Naples Campus, through April 26.
— T.D. Mobley-Martinez
For a plein air painter, there are few better spots than Naples, Florida. Chicago artist and Naples transplant Trudy Bentley Rech conjures Florida’s eternal summer — the climate, the light and the denizens of that world — in work that’s intensely colored, both impressionistic and representational, broadly rendered and detailed where it counts.
"Finding a unique perspective or moment in time is part of my drive," she writes. "My work is all about seizing time with pigment."
Bentley Rech’s work is on display in two exhibitions: "Trudy Bentley Rech, Oil Paintings," the United Arts Council at Marco Airport, through June 30; and "I’ll Take Romance," Falciglia Art Gallery, International College Naples Campus, through April 26.
— T.D. Mobley-Martinez
The painting which appeared above this article is an oil painting titled Dancing Oak
This is MY kind of Friday the 13th! LOL.
2 comments:
I've never seen such delicious blues. Except, of course, in the sky.
Thanks so much Martha. Your thoughts on my work are so very welcome.
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