| Welcome to my on-line art gallery featuring Traditional Chinese Brush Paintings and Oils |
My Thoughts as an Artist
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| Darlene Kaplan with Master Instructor Mr Henry Wo--2010 |
| Chinese Brush Painting by Darlene Kaplan |
Fishing Village
| Pending Exhibitions |
| Red Dot Art Fair--Miami, FL, December 1-5, 2010 Red Dot Art Fair-- New York, NY, March 3-6, 2011 Solo Exhibition, Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD, January 30- February 28, 2013 |
| For many years I painted realism in oils before making the change to oriental brush painting. Studying martial arts for years inspired me to try this medium, which I fell in love with right away. The calming effect of grinding the ink before painting, the energy that is put into throwing ink on paper is just the greatest of pleasures that only this style of art allows me to feel. I grew up in the country in Tennessee where all of my spare time was spent walking in the woods searching out bugs, plants and anything else that was alive. Those childhood days spent with nature is brought alive every time I put a brush stroke down on paper. All of my paintings are derived from nature. The paintings are from the very simple, elegant brush stroke of the bamboo orchid to the complicated soothing landscapes that your eyes can take a journey up into the mountains and off into the mist before returning home. Subtlety of a good painting lies in its being alike and yet unlike the subject where the absence of content can itself create rhythm and variety. I believe that an artist is a person who can see something within the mind that can be brought into reality where it can be seen, felt, touched, heard, and even sometimes smelled. |
| Lotus in the Rain- Chinese Brush Painting by Darlene Kaplan |
Accepted in Sumi-e Society of America
Juried Exhibition held at The Workhouse
Arts Center, Lorton, VA Oct-Nov, 2010
Juried Exhibition held at The Workhouse
Arts Center, Lorton, VA Oct-Nov, 2010
| "Blue Morning Glories & Butterflies" has been chosen as a finalist in the Landscape/Interior category of The Artist's Magazine 27th Annual Art Competition. Look for the December issue, 2010 |