Urban Landscapes

J. Mane Gallery is proud to present our Urban Landscapes online juried art exhibition.

Each season of the year, regardless of what region of the world you live in, comes with nature's own amazing color palette. For this competition we invited artists to share their artistic vision of any of the four seasons, winter, spring, summer or fall.

For this competition, artists were encouraged to share their artistic vision and interpretation of one of the four seasons. The artwork submitted varied from realism to surrealism to abstraction, and all media were accepted, including 3-D. All artists over the age of 18, regardless of location or experience, were encouraged to submit their best inspired work.

Each of our themed exhibitions, awards for Best In Show, Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards.

The remaining artists included in the exhibition serve as an example of impressive talent and we are honored to showcase their artwork on the J. Mane Gallery website.

We thank all the competition participants. If you are interested in purchasing any of the artwork in this exhibition, please contact the artists directly. J. Mane Gallery does not enter into the selling of artwork featured in any of the monthly online exhibitions. You will find the artist's website or email by clicking on the images below.

Thank you for visiting our website and enjoy the exhibition!

Best In Show

Ron pattern

I grew up on the north bank of the Fraser River in British Columbia. I remember sitting around the kitchen table with my siblings and cousins over the rainy winters drawing. Later, when I realized art was my calling, I studied Graphic Arts and Illustration at Douglas College. I graduated in 1979 and began painting seriously. In 1987, I became a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. In the ‘80s, I married and traveled around the US, eventually settling in beautiful Whatcom County where I continued to study and paint while I raised my two children. In the early years of my career, I focused on watercolor, studying the paintings of Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and Ken Danby. Wyeth’s paintings in particular, have always deeply influenced me. I started jurying and exhibiting with the NWWS and became a signature member in 1995. I currently paint in a studio at the historic Morgan Block Building in downtown Fairhaven in Bellingham, Washington. I still paint watercolor, but also, I like acrylic and egg tempera. My paintings are in many corporate collections, including Peace Health, West Coast Paper, and multiple private collections. For more see patternart.net.

platinum

Nikki Coulombe

Ultimately as a traditional artist most comfortable painting or drawing, my approach toward art emphasizes value in the work process, where means to expression are diverse, and despite the outcome, effort is always worthwhile.

I grew up in Alberta, Canada, where three years of formal education led to a home-based business in eastern Ontario, working freelance while my children were young. Along with a variety of on-site work for Interior Designers, commissions included fabric design, illustrations, people and pet portraits, and customized wall murals for homes and restaurants. Until moving to the U.S. in 2002, volunteer work at schools involved developing educational projects around themes of Art History, multiculturalism, and environmental issues.

Modifying styles is characteristic of my work, mostly dictated by subject matter and the unique challenges presented by each individual piece as it unfolds. I work intuitively and don't really have pre-set, predictable methods, except there is constant concern for negative spaces being as important as the main objects. I'll remove material to create marks, imply structures, backgrounds and spatial movement, using damp cloth and dry brushes on acrylics paintings or watercolors, pottery tool and fingernails with oil pastels, and different sizes of erasers for work in graphite and soft pastels.

Photography is an ongoing interest, where I'm guided by the experiences and observations, influential in my artwork as inspiration and reference. Recently (2020-24) I've been doing large format soft pastels on paper, trying a broad range of subjects representing some of the amazing places I've traveled to.

nikkiartwork.com

gold

Tina Camporeale

My name is Tina Camporeale; I am a New York-based painter with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. After a 30-year corporate career as a Digital Artist for an Environmental Engineering firm and my lifelong love of art history, I have focused on painting landscapes using acrylic or oil on canvas. Today, I can’t walk by a meadow, a stream, or any environmental scene without visualizing it as a painting. When I’m not out looking for my next vista to paint, you can find me in my studio painting portraits.

email: tinacamp@optimum.net

silver

Boston Uncommon, Photography and Oil on Canvas, 24 x 36

Rex wilder

As a New Pictorialist, I believe, as Stieglitz did nearly a hundred years ago, mainly that the image should be an aesthetic symbolic record of a scene plus the artist's personal comment and interpretation, capable of transmitting an emotional response to the mind of a receptive spectator. It should show originality, imagination, unity of purpose, a quality of repose, and have an infinite quality about it.

email: getwilder@me.com

Bronze

Thinking of Warmth, Mixed Media Photo, 6 x 8

Wen Redmond

New England artist Wen Redmond’s fascination with photography finds expression through printing original photographs directly onto a variety of created mix media substrates. An artist for decades, she interweaves her love of nature, mixed media, words, and photography to create unique stitched textual constructions. Wen’s techniques can be further investigated in her books- Digital Fiber Art and Other Mixed Media Masterpieces, and new book, Explorations with Collage! Merging Photographs, Paper & Fiber Wen’s work has been in many exhibits worldwide, a variety of publications and has written two books. She makes her home in New Hampshire and North Carolina.

wenredmond.com