Karen O'Neil
Karen O'Neil's Still Lifes
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| Kitchen Still Life III Medium: oil on canvas Size: 30" x 30" |
Baking Apples Medium: oil on canvas Size: 24" x 20" |
Glass and Tulips Medium: oil on canvas Size: 24" x 20" |
Yellow Pitcher Medium: oil on canvas Size: 10" x 8" |
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| Strawberry on Glass Plate Medium: oil on canvas Size: 10" x 10" |
Pink Saucer Medium: oil on canvas Size: 14" x 11" |
Plum in Glass Bowl Medium: oil on canvas Size: 10" x 10" |
White Teapot with Lemon Medium: oil on canvas Size: 14" x 11" |
Artist Statement
"Painting allows me to express my feelings about life; the most basic and simple concepts are the most important. My work is about light and color. My goal is to create two dimensional reality from my sensory perceptions. I love the fresh and direct quality oil paint has. I try to capture the essence of my subject through broad, direct brush strokes, which have become an important part of each composition.
Painting is communication; my goal is to capture the brief and fleeting visual excitement of our everyday lives, to connect and communicate that to each person who views my work. A quote from Edward Hopper which has always inspired me very much, "To me, form, color and design are merely a means to an end, the tools I work with; and they do not interest me greatly for their own sake. I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with."