Hollister Peak Canvas Print

Another of those scenes that sort of paint themselves; all I did, basically, was hold the brush. Driving north from San Luis Obispo, this dramatic little mountain beckoned me off the highway, where I spent a happy, nearly solitary couple of hours painting it from a quiet dirt road. A young girl and her grandmother, who passed by a couple of times with their dog, told me its name -- and that (so typical of California) it was privately owned & closed to strangers.

Peter Salwen's light-filled urban landscapes are in collections across the U.S., Europe and South America. Salwen's paintings, he says "try to express the deep pleasure to be found in something as simple as sunlight on a wall or the ordinary traffic of people and machinery at city street corner. At heart they are simply thank-you notes to Nature for providing such an endless array of visual joys, most especially in New York City, which is of course Nature's noblest creation. "The city streets offer up an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of shapes, colors and impressions to the interested eye. Most of my paintings are an attempt to capture the sensations of one particular moment and somehow wrestle them onto the canvas where, with luck,...