Terry Orletsky

George Innes, the 19th century American Tonalist painter, said "...an elaborateness of detail does not gain me meaning." Turner is inspiring. "Indistinctness is my forte." Turner's work glows with light and everything is infused with motion. His landscapes are never static. My work emulates his. Landscapes are fluid; skies threaten, clouds move, grain sways, trees rustle, and the sea restlessly heaves. A city scape is frenetic with abstract traffic. The canvas is attacked with knife and brush and enthusiasm. I like my paintings to exude moods and motion and I sometimes have creative periods that tend exclusively to the knife. Color is used not to describe but to evoke emotion. Intentions are conveyed through suggestions - not delineation. Verena Rotke wrote “Nature itself, the landscape itself, does not contain any straight line, any artificial composition – its beauty can exclusively be seen in apparent disarrangement.”

I now live in San Diego county next to the sea. My roots are in the prairies of Alberta and the mountains of the Canadian Rockies. I paint what I know - whether it is a vista before me or a memory entrenched in my mind. My recent series of portraits entitled "Recollection" represents those of us nearing the end ...

-University of California San Diego (UCSD) at The Loft Apr 10, 2018 to Jun 13, 2018.
-Ashton Gallery San Diego Sep 22 to Oct 20 2018 "Home & Harvest"
-Ashton Gallery San Diego Nov 24 2018 to Jan 5 2019 "C Note Exhibition "
-"The Winter Show", Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Dec 7, 2018 to Jan 2, 2019
-Emerald Spring Painting Exhibition 2019, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR May 1 to May 31, 2019. Award winning "Upon the Heath".
-"Impressive: All Media 2019", Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA May 2 to May 31, 2019
-San Diego County Exhibition of Fine Art, May 31 - July 4, 2019 Del Mar CA
-"Color Vibrations" Exhibition, The Cove Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA June 8 - July 25, 2019
-Newport Beach Art Exhibition, Newport, CA June 15, 2019
-California Coastal Exhibition, The Cove Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA July 26 - September 26, 2019
-Ashton Gallery San Diego Nov 30 2019 to Jan 4 2020 "C Note Exhibition "
-Small Wonders", Autumnal Series, The Cove Gallery, Nov 22, 2019 to Jan 30, 2020
-"The Winter Show", Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Dec 6, 2019 to Jan 17, 2020
-"HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora & Fauna", Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Feb 8, 2020 to May 23,2020
-Del Mar Fair Fi...