Grace to Paint

 

Weekly Oil Paintings by Sister Maresa Lilley, SND

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Weekly Oil Paintings
by Sister Maresa Lilley, SND

Mist Off the Pond

18×24″ oil on canvas panel; click on painting for purchase information.

Not too far from the barn that I posted the other day, is this luring landscape. Several years ago, I took a photo of the cool autumn air of morning rolling over the distant pond; it was revealed in the fog rising up from the water. I tried to give the scene an abstract quality with more muted tones and large masses of color. No doubt the trees are much taller now and cloak the soft mystery of “fogging.”

Sunshower

9×12″ oil on stretched canvas; click on painting for purchase information.

 

For one American artist, Dan McCaw, whose work I admire, paintings are about contrasts and interesting shapes; about warm color played against cool color; about patterns of light balanced with patterns of dark. So this simple painting is about all of the above. It is not so much about the young woman herself, but about the striking elements she and nature afforded me one day.

Farm Charm

8×8″ oil on stretched canvas; click on painting for purchase information

At one end of our scenic property in Chardon, Ohio, there was once a farm. A few well-kept buildings remind us of this fact. Today this charming antique houses some stored furniture for us, but the barn does not seem offended in any way.

Poppy Pose

8×8″ oil on gessoed artist board; click on painting for purchase information.

Trekking our roads in springtime, I came upon this cheery-faced poppy. Not only the attractive burst of color, but the wonderful gift of poppy seeds for heavenly pastries wins my tribute. So I placed her in a little glass bottle and expressed my thanks in paint.

Pansy Whimsy

Such expressive faces begging to be painted! Their nodding heads agreed. This little box of beauties was a gift from my family for the springtime, and so I was inclined to memorialize them on canvas. These smaller flowers are more accurately called violas, but by any name…who can resist their attractive faces?

8×8″ oil on stretched canvas; click on the painting for purchase information.

Meet Sr.Maresa

I am Sister Maresa Lilley, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, located in Chardon, Ohio, USA. For many years, I have enjoyed a passion that permits me to reflect upon simple reality with a brush in hand. To capture a simple essence on canvas and to discover inherent beauty is a daily immersion.

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