Sailing Away, Carmel-by-the-Sea Painting

Charmaine Anderson is a fine artist and oil painter from Southern California who now resides in Portland Oregon. Her artwork includes beautiful scenery from her excursions in the Pacific Northwest and her travels abroad. She enjoys painting landscapes and wildlife which reflects her love of nature. Her unique style is a blend of realistic impressionism and neo-luminism that often reflects an ethereal quality of light that transcends and uplifts the spirit. The surface quality of her painting is equally important to her as the image. Her painterly layered brushstrokes add texture and a dimensional quality that allows light to skip and dance across the surface creating an interesting effect of light refraction and shimmering color shifts when viewed from different angles. Her confident expressive brushstrokes convey emotion and movement which adds excitement and vitality to the work.